ELTHAM.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 April 1922, Page 6

ELTHAM.

PLUNKET SOCIETY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) El th am, April 5. The report for the past year submitted at the annual meeting of the Plunket Society, held here to-day, stated that the work of the society had gone steadily forward, and there was a noticeable increase in the number of honorary subscribers. The El th am branch had agreed to contribute 10s per visit for the nurses’s car expenses- A picture benefit realised £lB nett. On September 28 the committee entertained the mothers and children to afternoon tea. Nurse Dix gave an interesting and instructive lecture. On the annual street day the satisfactory sum of £56 8s lOd was raised, and the donation box at the rooms contained 8s 4d. The society desires to thank Nurse Dix for the excellent way in which she has carried out the work; the many willing helpers who give their services from time to time; Mr. Dunn, for providing the nurse with lunch free of charge; Dr. H. A. Cooper, for allowing Nurse Dix to visit the hospital on Wednesdays; and the Hon. W. Carncross, for the many opportunities he has taken of placing the aims and objects of the society before the public- The balancesheet showed total receipts amounting' to £240 14s 6d, including subscriptions £l7 ss, picture benefit £27 Ils 3d, “Baby Day” £42 13s 4d. On the expenditure side the main outgoings were: Nurse’s salary and car, £45 Is; rent, £39 15s; papering and painting. £l2 7s 6d; furnishing, £l4 16s. The credit balance at the end of the year was £lO5 Os lOd. PROGRESS COMMITTEE. The Eltham Progress Committee met last evening to bid farewell to Messrs. W. 11. Shipton and S. Holder, who are leaving the district, both gentlemen having disposed of their businesses. There was a good attendance, Mr- I. J. Bridger presiding. The chairman, in bidding farewell, stated that the committee regretted the loss of two of its most valuable members, and wished them good fortune in their new venture. Several other members endorsed the chairman’s remarks. The committee decided that a photograph of the Progress Committee be taken, and the two departing members be presented with one copy each. GENERALA shop in Bridge Street, in the bankrupt estate of Mr. H. Nuttall, was to-day offered for sale by auction, but was passed in, no offer being made for the property. PERSONAL. Messrs. H. D. Forsyth, J. L. Weir and C- J. Belcher were passengers by the mail train to Wellington to-day, where they attend a meeting of the Butter Committee, and also interview Mr. Massey in matters oertaioing thereto.