WINTON NOTES

Southland Times, Issue 25311, 14 June 1935, Page 4

WINTON NOTES

CRIPPLED CHILDREN’S FUND. (From Our Correspondent.) The fund opened at Winton, by the Mayor, Mr Thomas Walker, to supplement the Dominion’s crippled children’s fund has been contributed to to date as follows (further contributions will be received by the Town Clerk, Miss I. G. Russell, and acknowledged): Jubilee Ball Committee, £43 3/7; T. Walker £1 1/-; W. H. S. Hine, £1 1/-; A. Wachner, £1 1/-; Mrs E. A. McDonald, Lora, £1 1/-; Mrs W. H. King, £1 1/-; Anonymous 7/2; total, £4B 15/9. Experimental Farm. The manager’s report on activities at the Winton experimental farm for the month of May stated that at the field day held during the month there were about 70 farmers present. The dairy herd was almost dry, the factory supply being stopped at the end of the month. The balance of the season’s supply would be separated. Cattle were all having chou moullier fed to them daily. Drainage work was being attended to at present, while field three had also been drain-ploughed, and appeared to be much benefited. The rainfall recordings at the demonstration farm for the month of May disclosed that rain fell on 16 days. The maximum fall was .62 of an inch on the 4th, while the total fall for the month was 3.99 in. District Dental Clinic. At a meeting of the Winton District Dental Clinic Committee, Mr T. Middleton presided over a fair attendance of members. The chairman reported that owing to an accident Nurse M. Schofield had been a patient in hospital and it would be some weeks before she would be able to resume duty. Fortunately, Mr Nicholson, dental superintendent, was on. his periodical visit at the time and promised every assistance in procuring the services of a relieving nurse at the earliest possible date. A motion of sympathy with Nurse Schofield was passed, and the secretary was instructed to convey to her the committee’s best wishes for her speedy recovery. The chairman referred to the great value of the work being carried out by the dental nurse and stressed the fact that the public had not had the work of the clinic brought before them to the extent that the service warranted. He said that owing to financial stress he feared there might be parents who kept their children at home from the clinic owing to their inability to find even the small fees that were asked from parents for treatment by the nurse. Mr Middleton stated that no children should be denied treatment owing to parents’ inability to pay. It gave him very great pleasure to state that a friend, who had desired to remain anonymous, had handed him a found with a request that it be used to pay the fees of children from any part of the district whose parents could not pay. Members of the committee expressed their satisfaction at the action of the unknown donor, and it was agreed that this and any similar donations would be subsidized from the general funds as far as finances permitted. It was later learned that information has been received that Nurse Hickey had arrived to carry on as a relieving nurse.