THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 43, 20 February 1930, Page 11

THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE

PROTECTION OF MOTHER-

HOOD

SUPPORT. OP CAMPAIGN

The following message fi-om - Her Majesty thp ' Queen has been received by the Administrator, of the Government df New. Zealand (Hon. Sir Michael Myers), and forwarded' to■ the ;Pnme Minister, the' Minister tip Health, 'and tc the. President of the New..Zealand Obstetrical Society:— . '-.-^ • =,

"I have learned, with great iutei'est that a campaign is to be opened this month in .New Zealand to raise, a sum of £50,000 for the 'endowment of a Chair of Midwifery aiul- '-Gy'uaccolpgv in the University of Otago." : --,--. ■*■ " •"I have for many years been deeply concerned in all matters, affecting the welfare^of mothers and children, and I recognise that it. is by the advancement of professional and public knowledge that progress in "this field'can most effectively.:be made.' • • :■■.'■■:■:>■ v :- "It;gives me special pleasure, -therefore, to hear of the proposal to found & professional .. Chair in order to further,, in the sphere of education^ the efforts already being miide jin-^he Do-' minion for the- protection: of ■motherhood, and the welfare of infancy, and to achieve a further saving of-valuable liVeS,". -•■ ■ ■• ■-.. ;.;..■ j .-..- i ■•;: ;

The v Administer sent the-following reply to the Secretary of State for' the Dominions:—. I. ■: ■■ ;. ;■ -■

.'.'The gracious messago from Her Majesty the Queen has been received, md communicated to tho President of the Obstetrical Society in connection with the appeal for funds to endow a Chair of Midwifery in the Otago University. On behalf of those concerned, I beg that an expression of respectful gratitude -may bo conveyed to Her Majesty.''

The Minister of Health to-day expressed the gratification of'the Government at the gracious message' received from Her Majesty in connection with the effort being made in this far-flung outpost of Empire to endow a Chair of Midwifery and Gynaecology. . This further evidence o£ the heart interest which Her Majesty the Queen has fop many years taken in all matters affecting the welfare of mothers and- chil. dren, could not, he said, fail in its appeal to her loyal New Zealand subjects.