PLUNKET SOCIETY.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14544, 24 October 1917, Page 3

PLUNKET SOCIETY.

I Tho monthly committee meeting of "th© Royal Health Society was held yesteruuv atujinuon, vvnn a guid^ attendance of members, Mrs Buchanan presiding. ■■ '. i Accounts, wcro passed for the month amnvmtinp- to £38 4s lid. Nurse Bisley's report for the month "was satisfactory, . including visits to Motueka, Wakelield. and Richmond. | Mrs Claude Graham was elected a member of ihe commit too. Tho rest of the business was concerned with arrangements tor Baby Week. Mrs Buchanan called attention to some leaflets to tho parents mid to the fathers of the Dominion, which" it is hoped will be distributed during tho week. Sub-committees were appointee! as follows:—Publicity Committee, for distiibutipn of literature, advertising, etc., Mrs Tharazyn, Misses Ledger and -Hunter-Brown: Decoration Committee, Mrs C. Y. Fell and Mrs Richmond 1'ell; Collection Committee, Mrs Berndston and Miss JJisicy; committee for afternoon tea, Mrs Wastney and Mrs Baumber. Circulars are beinp[sent to tJie clergy, aslcino; for their support and co-operation, and that they will call the attention of ttieir congregations to the effort that is being made on behalf of the ■babies. Letters were received from Mr Young, M.P. of Hamilton, and Mr T. A. H. I<ield member for .Nelson, expressing their willingness to be present at the public meeting on Monday, if their Parliamentary duties will allow, and toiielp with the work in any way possible, beveral others havo consented to taice part in the meeting. The names of the speakers will be advertised. The meeting and exhibition of JMunket work on Wednesday afternoon lias been arranged to take place in the fcJhelbourne Street Schoolroom.

Mr George Slieat, president of the rsorth Canterbury Threshing Mill Owners' Association, speaking "at the annual meeting last Meek, saifi tiie picspects were for a bountiful harvest in Canterbury. When coming to Crmtcnumi, ne had paid particular attention, and was irnoressod with what he saw between Brookside and Dunsandel. 'iiie- crops olforod the best prospects of hjs sixty years' experience in the province. It was necessary that the Government should sco that this bountiful harvest, was gleaned, and the Government shoiild take steps to shut down non-essential industries temporarily so that men might bo freed to do harvesting work.

"Carrying vegetables into town today is the latest form of 'swank' among city men," says the "Daily Mail." "Formerly it was their pride to be discovered with a few roses. 'Ye'es, not bad, old man,' they used to reply to compliments; 'but they've gone off a bit now. You should have seen them last week.' To-day it is n young lettuce or some potatoes that they display, self-consciously, as a bait for compliments.