Pertinent Pars about Personalities

NZ Truth, Issue 1190, 20 September 1928, Page 6

Pertinent Pars about Personalities

AN Institution which has been getting m a lot of good -work lately is the Citizen's Day Nursery, -whose cheery premises are m Kent Terrace, Wellington. Callers will be welcomed by Mrs, Eiby, who has been matron there for eighteen months and liked every minute of it. Mrs. Eiby, a New Zealander, hails from Christchurch, where she was matron successively of a boarding-school and an orphanage. ' She is m welfare work chiefly for the love of it, keeping to the policy of brightness and "comfort for the small fry delivered into her keeping at 7.30 every morning. With only one assistant (a trained nurse), Mrs. Eiby, keeps the. nursery premises tidy, looks after .the twenty to twenty-eight children brought m daily, cooks them each a hot dinner (soup, potatoes, milk puddings and fruit) and sees that no blood is shed over the woolly rabbits and hobbyhorses. Children of working mothers are "minded" at the nominal fee of 1/- a day — and the day lasts ten hours.