MOVEMENT LAUNCHED

Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1935, Page 7

MOVEMENT LAUNCHED

CRIPPLED CHILDREN’S AID

SOCIETY AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

VER*Y STRONG REPRESENTATION.

I . SPONSORSHIP OF ROTARY CLUB.

More than 20 New Plymouth people who are prominently associated with charitable and social organisations in the district launched the New Plymouth branch of the New Zealand Crippled Children’s Society yesterday, and application was made for the incorporation of the society. Mr. Z W. H. Jones, president of the New Plymouth Rotary Club, which is sponsoring the formation of the branch; presided at the inaugural meeting. . ’ ' At the outset Mr. R. H. Quilliam said that all present understood in a general way the objects of the Dominion-wide movement to- form branches of the society and explained that the Rotary clubs of New Zealand had undertaken responsibility for their successful launching. Once they were operating, however, the Rotary clubs relinquished official connection with the branches but would, of course, give all possible support to the movement.

At Wellington the national Crippled Children’s Society had already Peen formed and had been incorporated to facilitate the transaction of business. It was proposed that all branches should take a similar step and that they should adopt the same set of rules as the parent body. Mr. Quilliam also explained that it had originally been intended to form the society and appoint its officers at a public meeting on Wednesday night but that, on further consideration, it had been thought advisable to form the society, appoint a temporary panel of officers and committee comprising citizens prominent in social and charitable work and put the case for the society’s work to the public as an already strongly representative body. The officers and committee would carry on actively only until the annual meeting after June 30 when all those who had become members of the society would have the opportunity of electing a hew executive if they so wished. Mr. Quilliam then briefly explained the objects and rules of the parent society, to which all branches will subscribe, and a motion of formation was taken,. members later signing the official application for incorporation. In the course of discussion it was explained that the personnel of the provisional committee had been suggested not as representatives of the other organisations with which they were prominently connected but as . individuals whose specialised knowledge of organising and social work and whose prominence as citizens would be valuable in launching the movement locally. Those appointed were: President, Dr. G. Home; vice-presidents, Messrs. P. E. Stainton and J. A. Valintine; secretary, Miss M Cormack; treasurer, Mr. H. W. Quickfall; committee, Messrs. W. H. Jones, J. H. Ledgerwood, W. H. Moyes, O. Johnston, W. H. Woodward, the Rev. Father P. J. Minogue, the Rev. F. Copeland, Archdeacon G. H. Gavin, Adjutant A. H. .Canty, Dr. M. Champtaloup, Mesdames C. J. Harris, A. J. List, M. G. Roy, A. Patrick, Misses I. M. Corkhill, M. Greenwell and E. Andrews.