THE PLUNKET SOCIETY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26200, 10 July 1946, Page 9

THE PLUNKET SOCIETY

Sir,—Apparently from the reports of the presentation of the Naval Memorial Unit to the Plunket Society, the Society is concerned with the mothers having to travel long distances to the Plunket rooms. Evidently the Concord-Burnside district is not included in this concern as the mothers in this district have to attend the rooms in Green Island. The bus and train service does not coincide with tlte Plunket nurses’ hours, which means a walk of about four to five miles. In Concord there is a centrally-situated hall belonging to the local branch of a religious body which on many occasions have bemoaned the falling birth-rate.

It should in the interests of the mothers be only too willing to make it available as a Plunket room for the hour or so per week that it would be needed. This arrangement would not take up any more of the nurses’ valuable time as she passes the hall on the road to Green Island. The time spent in Concord hall would not then be needed at Green Island, and what a boon it would be to the mothers of the Concord District.—l am, etc., Parent. [The secretary of the Plunket Society said yesterday that the society was sympathetic towards those people who found it difficult to attend the Plunket rooms on account of the distance from their homes, and that it was hoped to be able to use the Naval Memorial Unit in the dlstrieis around Dunedin at some future date. It was pointed out, however,, that the reorganisation of those districts and of the staff necessary to carry out the work, could not be done immediately but would take a certain amount of time.—Ed. O. D. T.]