ORDER OF BLUE FLOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 429, 10 August 1928, Page 16

ORDER OF BLUE FLOWER

FORGET-ME-NOT DAY SUNSHINE FOR CHILDREN Decorated with the order of three little blue flowers, Aucklanders are proving to-day that they have not forgotten the right to the sunshine of the unfortunate children of the city. “Forget-Me-Not Day” has been arranged by the Community Club and more than 200 ladies are patrolling the streets with baskets of flowers. Every subscription goes toward the purchasing of Nelson Street School and the converting of it into a “sunshine school.” Mrs. N. E. Ferner and her associates are working for a scheme which has the approval of the medical profession. Dr. Lawrence Ludbrook says that the object of the school is to provide nursing and schooling as well as medical advice for those children who. on account of long illness, are handicapped in their education, through enforced convalescence at home. The types of children who will be accepted at the school will include those who are persistently under-nourished, under-weight, lacking in strength, nervous, or subject to frequent illnesses, but in whom no serious organic defeci can be found.

These children will receive care and attention which they would never be able to receive in their own homes.