DAY NURSERIES.
A WELLINGTON SCHEME. HELP FOR WORKING. MOTHERS. A deputation from the Citizens' I>ay Nursery Society waited on a committee of the Wellington City Council and asked whether they would recommend the Council to allow a day nursery to be erected on one of the city reserves, and also if enough land could be allowed to provide a playground for the children who would be left at the nursery, Mrs. Gray briefly outlined the scheme for a day nursery, Which, she said, would be of incalculable benefit to mothers with children. Unfortunately, many mothers had to go out to work. Some tried to take their children with them, but this was often unsatisfactory. Some left them at home or made other arrangements. If a day nursery were established, mothers whom necessity drove to work could leave their little ones in the hands of people who would feed and care for them till they were called for. Then there were the many mothers Who required to go shopping and had no one to leave their children with- To carry the children about made shopping a drudgery, if not an impossibilityThese mothers could also leave their I c-hi'.dran at tho nurscrv for a while*
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1920, Page 5
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203DAY NURSERIES. Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1920, Page 5
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