WELFARE OFFICER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 8

WELFARE OFFICER.

FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN. MANAWATU PROPOSAL. When the matter of the employment of a welfare officer came up at last evening’s meeting of the Manawatu branch of the Mew Zealand Crippled Children’s Society, the chairman (Mr W. G. Black) stated that the committee, which was working in an honorary capacity, had been obliged to recognise the fact that it was difficult for it to survey all the cases and to adequately deal with them (medically or vocationally), owing to the area at present covered by the branch being so extensive. Very valuable work had been carried out by the Wellington welfare officer, and it was the recommendation of the committee that such an officer should be appointed for the Manawatu. Mr G. G. Hancox and he had waited on the Wanganui branch with a view to having the matter ventilated, and that body had agreed to join with Manawatu in the joint employment of a welfare officer. The New Zealand Society wished to see the funds available used in the most productive manner, and felt that the best way to further the aims of the society was by the adoption of the proposal. Mr Hancox, in supporting Mr Black, said that the members of the committee had done invaluable work, but that owing to the limitations of their activities it was felt that the work, to be done < thoroughly, required the services of a stipendiary officer. Mr Black, Mr C. S. Williams, F.R.C.S.E., and Mr Hancox were authorised to act with a sub-committee from the Wanganui branch in the appointment of an officer.