CARE OF CRIPPLES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5634, 28 June 1943, Page 2

CARE OF CRIPPLES

LETTER FROM SUB-CENTRE UNINTENDED SLIGHT The following letter has been received by the county clerk (Mr T. Grant) from the Hamilton Spb-Centre of the Crippled Children’s Society:— "‘The protest voiced at the last meeting of your Council with reference to the letter forwarded to the Mayor of Te Awamutu by this SubCentre has been brought to the notice of my Committee. “We have, first of all, to admit that from the evidence in the hands of your Council, they have every justification for such a protest, in view of the good work carried out by the Waipa Auxiliary Committee of the Society, and I "have been instructed to tender the apology of the SubCentre to your Council and the Auxiliary Committee for the apparent inferences contained in our letter.

“ However, my Committee feels that after your Council is fully cognisant of the facts leading to our letter to the Mayor of Te Awamutu you will realise that the blame for the unintended slight to your Auxiliary Committee should not be laid at the door of this Sub-Centre. “On 16th December, 1942, a public meeting, arranged by the Hamilton Rotary Club, was called to consider the advisability or otherwise of forming a Sub-Centre of the Society in the Waikato district.

“As a result of that meeting a Sub-Centre was duly formed and an executive committee appointed. “ One of the first acts of the honorary secretary was to ask the Auckland branch for all correspondence and records of all auxiliary committees established in the Waikato district prior to the formation of the SubCentre in December, 1942, to be sent to him so that accurate contacts could be made with outside towns.

“ These correspondence files were duly sent to our honorary secretary by the Auckland branch, and the Te Awamutu and Waipa file showed that the last letter received from or written to the local Committee was in September, 1939. “ That was the only guide in the possession of the honorary secretary, leaving the natural assumption that your Committee had gone into recess, and his endeavour was only to reestablish the good work performed prior to that date. “We know now that correspondence between your Committee and the Auckland branch has passed since 1939, but we have no record of that correspondence, and the Auckland branch has failed to advise this SubCentre that your Committee was existent and actively functioning. “We trust that this explanation will clear any misunderstanding between your Committee and this .SubCentre, and we will take up the matter with the Auckland branch.

“ Far from wishing to set up another committee, our Executive Committee would greatly appreciate your Auxiliary Committee carrying on with its good work, and, as the best means for co-ordinating the work in the Waikato district, would ask that a* delegate from its members be appointed to sit on the Executive Committee of the Sub-Centre in Hamilton.

“We feel that thereby both your Committee and our Executive Committee will still further be able to carry out our mutual objects.’’