PLUNKET GARDEN PARTY

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 2, 1 April 1915, Page 90

PLUNKET GARDEN PARTY

The clerk of the weather must love babies, as do all the wise folk amongst ourselves, for he cleared up his clouds and gave the loveliest sunshine for the Garden Party given by Mrs. Pyne, honorary president of the Christchurch Branch of the Plunket Society, m her lovely garden. Nearly a hundred babies mostly under one year old were brought by their mothers and it was a pretty sight to see the spotlessly dressed little babies smiling and kicking m their mothers' arms, while the elder ones crept or toddled about the lawn. The three Plunket nurses were kept busy helping the mothers to show off their treasures, and tell their histories to a large crowd of admiring guests from all parts of New Zealand. Mostly the story was how by lack of knowledge baby had got ill and grown weaker and weaker until the Plunket nurse had come, or been sent by the busy doctor, to patiently explain and teach better methods, and now the mother herself was wiser, and tlie little one was m the straight path towards sturdy citizenship. One pair of twins was specially interesting from the midwifery point of view, as three days had elapsed between the birth of the first and second, an unusual occurrence

amongst us m these modern days. Afternoon tea refreshed the mothers on their arrival, and after a long and pleasant after noon all wended their way homewards, tired but happy.