PLUNKET SOCIETY & GIRL GUIDES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 10

PLUNKET SOCIETY & GIRL GUIDES

Combination of Two Phases Of Work MISS HERRICK'S VIEWS "I do wish the work of the Plunket Society could be extended up to the. age of eight years so that the society could hand straight over to the Gui.de movoment, " remarked Miss Ruth Her- I iick, Chief Commissioner of the rir] Guide Association an New Zealand. who ^vae the priucipal speaker at tho annual meeting yesterday of the Hastings' brauch of the Plunket Society. The Girl Guido Association owed i. deep debt of gratitude, said Miss Herrick, to Plunket societies throughout New Zealand and, particularly, to Plunket nurses. Both iustitutious had been set up by two flue men and both wtere organised and admiuistered by womeu. One dealt with the mother, while the other had the easier task of looking after the child after it had reached the age of eight years. In the 12 or 13 yeare that Guiding had been carried out in New Zealand Plunket nurses had given lectures to children up to 11 years old — and even older. In places where there was a Karitane Hospitai it was part of the day's Guide work to visit the hospitai. For the child-nurse badge, also, instruction was giveh by Plunket nurses. The Truby King badge had been instituted in New Zealand recently as a senior badge for girls of over 14 years, and the syllabus for it had been drawn up by the Plunket Society. Miss Williams expressed a hope that it might be possible to extend the work of the Plunket Society until the child became ready to enter the Guides.^ The preseiit gap was too great. The ideals of both societies were much the same and the work would take greater root if this could be done, It would be a great advantage to the future citizens. "As the world is ehaping at the present time with iso much social servico being. taken over by the Government," concluded Miss Herrick, "I think we must all wonder how long tbe work of the Plunket Society and that of the Guides will be able to contlnue. I- f eel strongly . that work done by . people because. they are really interested in it and not because they are compelled to do it must always havo more *lasting effects for everyone." A "cote of thanks was paesed to Miss Herrick,