OBSTETRICAL APPEAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20517, 19 March 1930, Page 13

OBSTETRICAL APPEAL.

DONATIONS TOTAL £6200. NO RETURNS FROM AUCKLAND. [by- telegbaph.—press ASSOCIATION.] • STRATFOED, Tuesday. \ The secretary of the New Zealand Ofcistetrical Society, Dr. Doris Gordon, stated 'to-day that latest advices showed that donations to the obstetrical endowment appeal in the Wellington Province totalled over £3OOO, in Canterbury £2OOO and in Otago £I2OO. The Auckland returns were not yet announced, but she anticipated that when they were revealed it would be found that Auckland was leading the Dominion. Through the Taranaki and , Wanganui. districts there was a solid .chain of donations from public bodies, who recognised that the matter of securing the midwifery endowment money was a civic responsibility. The latest public body reported ta have made a donation was the Wanganui Harbour Board. The menfolk are realising that, as this cause concerns men just as much as women, it is not fair to leave all the hard collecting work to women, and several Rotary clubs have already expressed their intention, of assisting. A group of younger men in the Inglewood district has announced that it proposes to organise a men's carnival. Dr. Gordon said there was a large body of workers collecting and in most places the sacrifice of the collectors was being rewarded by donations proportionate to the resources of the givers and to the urgency of the call, but some few areas were inclined to respond in shillings only, whereas the appeal was for whatever the givers could afford.