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Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1920, Page 5

PLUNKET REST ROOMS. An innovation in the arrangements at the Show buildings, which will be mush appreciated by the women who attend with infant children, will be the provision of a rest room for mothers and babies. This haß been undertaken by the committee of the local Plunket Society, Two rooms at the opposite end of the hall from (he entrance doors have been placed at the disposal of the committee oy tho Defence Department, and these have been fitted out with the dual object of providing a much-needed rest,room, and also of demonstrating the Phmket meth> ods of caring for infants. The room for babies will be fitted out with small beds in which infants may safely be. left to enjoy their accustomed sleep, while..the room for mothers will afford welcome relief from the otherwise inevitable, necessity of parading round the building. Members of the committee will be in attendance throughout the time the show is open to look after children left in tlie In addition, Nurse Williams, who las postponed her holiday for no other reason than that of assisting in this undertaking,, will be present, and at a stall outside the rooms she wfll give demonstrations of the methods of making babies' beds, of weighing babies, and the Plunket style of clothing them, and in I this latter connection she will hav* pap*r sattonu of tbtfitaM&tt,/ "