PLUNKET SOCIETY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 14, 9 October 1937, Page 6

PLUNKET SOCIETY

Meeting oi Hastings Branch At the monthly meeting of the Hastings branch of the Plunket ' Society, v Miss Williams presided over Mesdames F. J. Hull, T. A. Hill, R. Campbell Macniven, J. B. Pickering, C. Stubbs, S. A. Vyner, P. Barker, G. Leggatt, R. Sunderland, W. A. . Whitlock, . W. F. Wellwood, C. G. R. Wright, S. F. N. Waymouth, S, Freeman, H. Glazebrook, E. D. Anderson, ,H. Gascoyne, E. C. Batee, Miss T. Keith .and the hon. secretary. The nurses ' report for ■ Septembet read as follows:— New cases, town 20, country 9. Visitors -to the office 1160; visits to hpmes,' town 301, country 222. Advice over telephone 82. Letters received 5, written 3. Country districta visited, Mangateretere six times, Havelock North 5, Twyford 'and Longlands" 4, Haumoana, Whakatu, Clive and Pakipaki 3, Pakowhai, Ngatarawa, Sherenden and Crownthorpe 1, Te Awanga 2. Final arrangements were made for the ehop and street collection to be held on Saturday, October 16, also arrangements for the work iu the Plunket room at the Spring Show. Remits for the general conference to be held in Wellington on November 4 and 5 were discussed. The following donations and subscriptions were acknowledged with thanks: Mesdames W. M. - Will, Cecil Spinney, D, Riggir, A. Kirkpatrick, Boyle, Bob Whyte, N. Roach, J. D. Glenny, H. E. Toulmin, D. F. Sturm, B. D. Holmes, Reg. Eves and. Messrs J. L. Herrick, > W. Bridgeman, and M. C. Nairn.