FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
LORD NUFFIELD'S GIFT GOVERNOR-GENERAL SENDS MESSAGE MINISTER'S APPRECIATION U'RESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, March 5. His Excellency the Governor-Gen-eral (Lord Bledisloe) this morning sent from Auckland the following message to Lord Nuffield: "My wife and I are deeply touched bv your magnificent gilt for our New Zealand crippled children. Many will bless you in the days to come for your thoughtful and farsighted generosity. Ac.cept our warm personal thanks.— Bledisloe, Governor-General." "As Minister for Health, I appreciate the wonderful and magnificent act on the part of Lord Nuffield, said the Sir Alexander Young 'o-day when commenting upon Lord "Nuffield's gift of £50,000 for ..it •nmve-rt em'-tren or New Zealand "The iudicious use of this gift must undoubtedly go a long way to bring some ray of sunshine into the lives of many deformed children, and relieve their parents of the dread of an unpromising future for their children, who may have been deformed either from birth, as a result of that dread disease infantile paralysis, or by accident. "The Rotary movement in New Zealand has already set a fine example and has given wonderful service to the community, in what it has already done in the building up of a sense of public responsibility toward crippled children in the Dominion. I have no doubt that Mr C. J. B. Norwood, who has associated himself with the Rotary movement, will co-operate with those institutions, national and local, which have for their aim the cure and alleviation of disability suffered by crippled children. "Perhaps there is no nobler phase of social service that the highestminded citizen could devote himself to. than this wonderful humanitarian work, which has been given this most magnanimous assistance by Lord Nuffield—a gracious act on his part which for all time will associate his name with noble and humane work for the betterment of suffering children " A Tribute from Rotary A letter sent to Lord Nuffield by Mr J. M. A. Ilott, District Governor of Rotary, expresses on behalf of the Rotary Clubs of New Zealand their great appreciation of the magnificent gift for crippled children, "which has given heart and encouragement to those who have been working with this object in view. The magnitude and genercfeity of your gift has thrilled us." Lord Nuffield's gift will enable a national movement to be launched immediately for effectively tackling 'he problem, as several years' preliminary work has already been completed. Dr. Alexander Gillies said to-day that four years ago the Education Department made u survey of schools, ascertaining there were over nOO crippled children, distributed substantially in line with the population density. "It is fortunate there has been no infantile paralysis epidemic since then; otherwise the numbers would have been largely increased," he said. "The greatest problem with the crippled children begins when the children reach the age of 14, for their mental health and happiness depend on providing them with a useful occupation. It is therefore essentia] to have vocational training. New Zealand has no such organisation, although in the Wellington Hospital there has been started occupational therapy, which is benefiting about 40 children. "We have no solariums which are so valuable in providing treatment. One was proposed for the Auckland Hospital, but the expenditure was not approved. Nor had we underwater exercise pools, which would be an important asset in the treatment of infantile paralysis. Society for Children "The interest of the Rotary Movement was enlisted several years ago, and, but for the untimely death of Mr T. C. List, the organisation would have been in full swing. However, at the recent Timaru conference it was decided that Rotary Clubs throughout the Dominion should immediately begin the organisation of a society for crippled children. Having done its part with the preliminaries. Rotary did not wish to figure in the movement as an organisation, though large numbers of its members would retain their interest and become active helpers in a national society which would assist the movement, which had the assistance of the Government through the Departments of Health and Education. "We also had the assistance of hospital boards, but many cripples were debarred, by lack of adequate transit, from reaching the means of effective treatment, which sometimes lie outside their own hospital district. Except for private philanthropy the crippled child, after leaving school, has no recognised means of assistance It: has been nobody's business, but the movement fills the- gap, and. stimulated so splendidly by Lord Nuffield's gift, it is assured of a good financial basis."
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 12
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