PLUNKET SOCIETY
PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE HAWKE’S HAY & GISBORNE ELECTION TO COUNCIL The nr.sc provincial conference of the Phinkel Society to be held in Gisborne was opened in Messrs. Petties’ lounge this morning, those present including Mrs. Jas Begg, Dunedin, Dominion president of the society, Miss G. Hoddinott, Dunedin, Dominion secretary, Dr. Helen Deem, medical adviser. Miss N. Fitzgibbon, nursing adviser; and representatives from the Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne districts. The chair was occupied by Mrs ■J. Blair, the Gisborne branch president, and with her was Mrs. H. P. Bennett, local secretary. Official delegates present were: Mesdames Thomson and Purdie, Pahiatua; Mrs. D. G. Allen, Waipawa; Mrs. J. D. Ormond, Waipukurau; Mrs. S. G. Harris, Dannevirke; Mrs. Sunderland. Hastings: Mesdames McCleary and Wyllie. Napier: Mrs. Gillespie and Miss Mcßae, Wairoa; Mesdames A F. Puflett, E. R. Black and H. L Primrose, Gisbbrne. Testing of Milk Mis. Blair explained a proposal for the testing of mother’s milk so that at weaning the milk secured should conform as nearly as possible to the quality of the mother’s*milk. Miss Kirkpatrick said that at present the testing of the milk was clone at dairy factories when no apparatus was in the possession of the society’s branch office. The factory testing was ■ done efficiently, it was found, and she did not think it was necessary to , purchase a Babcock testing machine when satisfaction was being obtained by the present system. Dominion Council Representatives Miss Hoddinott said that four nominations had been received for three representatives to attend the Dominion council meeting, and in order to observe the spirit of the society’s rules to have as wide a representation as possible, she suggested that Mrs. Patterson, Pahiatua, as a representative of the one-nurse branches, should be elected unopposed and that an election should take place for the other two vacancies.
This course was agreed to, and those elected were Mrs. McClurgh, Napier, and Mrs. Sunderland, Hastings.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20007, 4 August 1939, Page 6
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318PLUNKET SOCIETY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20007, 4 August 1939, Page 6
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