HELP FOR MOTHERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 225, 17 June 1920, Page 6

HELP FOR MOTHERS

THE W.N.R. EFFORT

APPEAL FOR STATE AID

of the division, saidthat there fler . three helpers ™ l »'°f eu s ' ou g ht . Ho many vices were most , e ?B, er y,S u r S aid that not were the requests I« tMr »W « ,„ more thau halt * ?%ereVa3 need for a any one person, a »*, Ul . e t r a |l Funds raised considerably 1 una f x _ by nublio appeal were now hausted, and though i ■ ™ ten Beeond appal «eet i q{ r1 response, th. c °™"" l o f national importthat the matterJftsoi u j. tom ance and that the help snoum tho Government It ™s expi thero wero charses mauc 10 hal . aßSl! d but thero wero mjny «Bsts m"J d}u mothers wer « were dispensed theso cases the 9 narE ?°",,. 1915 we're: with. »«'»'' ? £2° helpSubscription; Expend.era' earnlnes, £K4. 8i ture was: Wage. ±«£. »*' m ThU ktt and it was estimated a balance of ±UII «» ' t b continued would enable the worK to D w for four or Ave montn* omy.ii B S! d , Ul s hvliS n s l a nd pSslSnal men. obtained by business ra» and »hcy Bcm.ui- u»" division made no class Sfßanrie^^g .of tho need for economy in. all public exii?„»« nits was a case for assistant*. D Mr d B itU Dar n|, president of the division, rotated Mt that if the scheme was to bo 5S "supporting the division would bo nblo fo help"only those willing and able to nav which was not at all their desire. Tho Minister, in reply, said that the ladies concerned deserved the creates nrafce for bavins initiated a practical Kme He ihonEht that it was largely ?lin fault of ladles themselves-no reference king made to members of the div sion-that it was difficult to obtain domestic help He thought that tho division had done good already in having raised the status of domestic hclpei to a Mopcr position in the community. They had Ms sympathy, and he would place their request before his colleagues lut he could not promise that thero would h» 1 stihsidv. Tho Government would hav« to conS wither it would do the same for all parts of Now Zealand, and this would involve heavy expenditure. Other women's societies wero making requests for othei purposes. If all tho requests under all heads- to the Government were to be granted Ihe expenditure would javo To be about iifty millions, and th s, of course, was impossible. Ho advised the division not to cease their appeals for n:d from the public. If they obtained money in this way it would come from tho same source as a Government subsidy, only through a different channel