PLUNKET SOCIETY FINANCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19154, 21 August 1930, Page 10

PLUNKET SOCIETY FINANCE.

A large deputation representing all parties in the House waited on the Prime Minister on Tuesday and secured a promise that no cuts would lie made in the Plunket subsidies and Karitane Hospital grants. The sum granted by the Government to Karitane Hospitals was £6750, and the payments met by the Plunket Society on account of the six Karitane Hospitals in the Dominion in 1029 were £16,631 6s 9d. On account of the Plunket nursing throughout New Zealand, payments were made during the last financial year amounting to £50,792 4s 6d, towards which the Government contributed £15,818 3s 2d. The balance needed had to be raised from a public evidently fully appreciative of the service given by the society to the mothers and children of the Dominion. The same section of the community also contributed the sum of £9BBI 0s 9d, which was raised towards the expenses of the Karitane Hospitals. The total reduction contemplated in the votes had been some £6200, of which £1750 was on hospital maintenance grants and some £4450 on grants for the Plunket nursing. The society did not ask for more money for expansion, but merely to be enabled to carry on the work to which it had been committed.