OBSTETRICAL APPEAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 924, 18 March 1930, Page 1

OBSTETRICAL APPEAL

£6*200 ALREADY COLLECTED MEN WORK AS CANVASSERS Press Association STRATFORD, Today. Dr. Doris Gordon, secretary of the Kew Zealand Obstetrical Society, stated today that latest advices showed that donations to the obstetrical endowment appeal in the Wellington Provincial District totalled over £3 000 Canterbury £2,000 and in Otago £1,200. The Auckland returns were yet announced, but she anticipated that when they were revealed it would be found that Auckland was leading the Dominion. Through the Taranaki and Wanganui districts there was a solid chain of donations from public bodies borough councils, county councils, hospital boards, etc., who recognised that the matter of securing the midwifery endowment money was a grave civic responsibility. The latest public body reported to have made a donation was the Wanganui Harbour Board. The menfolk are realising that, as this cause concerns men just as much as women, it is not fair to leave all the hard collecting w r ork to women, and several Rotary clubs have already expressed their intention of assisting. A group of younger men in the Inglewood district have just shown similar chivalry by announcing that they are going to run a men’s carnival. Dr. Gordon said there was a large body of workers collecting and in most places the sacrifice of the collectors was being rewarded by donations proportionate to the resources of the givers and to the urgency of the call, buj some few areas were inclined to respond in shillings only, whereas the appeal was for whatever the givers could afford.