PLUNKET SOCIETY.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19763, 19 December 1935, Page 5

PLUNKET SOCIETY.

HAMILTON BRANCH. REVIEW OF YEAR’S WORK. - The Hamilton branch of the Plunket Society have carried out successfully a busy year’s programme. Full-time Plunket services have been maintained in Hamilton and Frankton districts, ' while the two nurses' monthy reports afford ample proof of tho confidence of the community in their services. As stated in the report for the year ending Maroh 31 last, the total number of visits to Hamilton rooms was 16,862 and to Frankton rooms 5161, while Nurse Lowe paid 1333 visits to homes and Nurse Hooker 658. The work has been maintained on the same scale during the last nine months. Owing to subsidence of portion of the site it was necessary to spend almost £SO In underpinning the foundations of the Hamilton rooms, while early next year the Society is faced with the repainting of the interior of these rooms and of the exterior woodwork, this work not. having been touched since the erection of the rooms some ten years ago. Thanks to the generosity of a retiring member of the committeo these rooms will be rendered more comfortable next winter for nurses and mothers by the installation of a gas fire and the provision of extra rugs. Members of committees will always be pleased to show friends the rooms. There are still many ways in which they could be rendered more comfortable and attractive. The annual flower day in September was well supported, while the subsidy, from the. Hamilton Borough 'Council was a welcome addition io funds. Owing to the wonderful success of the photographic competition held in July and the public support there accorded, the Society is enabled to dispense with the March fete appeal, for one year only, and to concentrate on work for the Winter Show stall for seven days in May, 1336. The president attended the Provincial conference in Auckland in Julv and the Dominion Council in Wellington in March and September, and the Dominion Conference in September. Thanks arc accorded the nurses for their untiring efforts and the many friends of the Society for their continued interest and support, which the Society is confident, will be maintained during the coming year. The work is constant, but the Society believes with the late Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, that: “There is no work more commendable, worth while, or pregnant, with advantage to posterity, than building humanity on a sound foundation, thus giving every normal child a real chance in life.”