SUCCESSFUL YEAR

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 4

SUCCESSFUL YEAR

Eastbourne Plunket Society

There was a very representative gathering for the seventeenth annual meeting of the Eastbourne sub-branch of the Wellington Plunket Society, held in the council chambers. Eastbourne, recently. Mrs. C. Girdlestone, president, welcomed Mrs. 11. Jowett, president of the Wellington branch, also Mrs. R. Mathews, Mrs. G. Gray, Miss Samson and Nurse Slater. The irnnual report showed that the past year’s work had been most successful and the quota for the year more than doubled. The sum of £157 bad been raised, beside £lO for the Truby King Memorial. As usual, the annual ball was a great success and the profit from this effort was £lO6.

Mrs. Jowett, who presided, appealed to members not to relax their efforts, as the Plunket work was most important at the present time and must, be kept going. An appeal was made by Miss Samson. charge nurse, Wellington, that mothers should not cease to take their children to the nurse when they reached IS months, as the advice and help to children till they reached school age 'was as important as that in the early days. - An inspiring address was given by Mrs. Theodore Gray on “Wife and Mother,” and she showed how mothers had been the same from Biblical days down to the present day. Officers elected for the ensuing year were: Patroness, Mrs. F. Mather; president, Mrs. C. Girdlestone; secretary, Mrs. C. L. Bishop; treasurer, Miss M. Morrison; vice-presidents, Mesdames E. IV. Wise, D. R. Hoggard, J. W. Heenan; hon. vice-presidents , Mesdames H. Jowett, V. P. Haughton, C. W. Richards, J. Robinson; executive, Mesdames D. N. Isaacs, E. L. Greensmith, A. E. Burch, V. G. Jervis, W. F. Hogg, N. H. Mather, W. Hurst-Barton, C. Pearoe, S. |H. Jenkinson, G. F. Northe, Miss A. Stace, Miss E. Isaacs; general committee, Mesdames G. Y. Berry, W. Dick, K. Brady, D. G. Wilson, D. M. Barham, L. Jones, J. Cass, H. Palmer, A. Fagan, A. P. King, F. C. Craig, E. A. Josling, F. M. Martin, G. Winston-Ingham, H. Manning, S. F. Fisher, D. Hall, H. T. Underhill, W. J. Berry, H. Plank, D. Keenan, H. McGill.