Violet Day

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22506, 14 September 1938, Page 10

Violet Day

The annual appeal of the Plunket Society may be recommended to the citizens of Christchurch in full confidence that their appreciation needs only a reminder, not an awakening. The society’s effort has been applied, for years, in the most profitable direction: to the strengthening of the foundations of national health and welfare. It has given the country valuable lives that would, without it. have been lost; it

has enabled infants to grow up into vigorous childhood and youth and maturity, when their chances of such vigour, without Plunket aid and skill, were negligible: it has diminished pain, sickness, and distress at every stage in the bearing and raising of children; it has widely spread all the advantages with which infancy can begin and its development proceed. This national service has not been performed and is not to-day performed • without a very large measure of voluntary aid. To be main-' tained and to be extended, it needs the giving as well as the gratitude of every wellwisher; and there is no better way of expressing praise and gratitude than by contributing to the funds of a society which has so good a use for every penny.