CARE OF CHILDREN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1938, Page 5

CARE OF CHILDREN

TARANAKI CENTENARY SCHEME. “FLYING DOCTOR” INTERESTED. Considerable interest in Dr Doris Gordon’s scheme for the utilising of money raised in Taranaki in connection with the New Zealand centenary in 1940 for the building for Taranaki of a super children’s home to function along Karitane and health camp lines was expressed in an interview in New Plymouth by the Rev John Flynn, 0.8. E., the man who has built up the Australian Inland Mission and the Australian Aerial Medical Services, well known in New Zealand as the famous “flying , doctor” service, says the “Taranakj Herald.” “I am particularly interested in the proposal that Taranaki should celebrate the New Zealand centenary by providing a haven where expectant mothers may find shelter for themselves and their children and where the latter can be cared for while their mothers are entering under the care of a maternity hospital,” he said. “Our experience would indicate that in most cases even after the mothers have been discharged from maternity hospitals their progress would be insured if they were given a few days’ additional rest in the waiting home. “My interest is based on a yearsold hope that the A.I.M. would help to provide similar institutions in Australia. Until now, however, our energies have been entirely taxed in the establishment of the Australian aerial medical services, but we hope to begin a serious experiment in one district where a public hospital is now being built to relieve the nursing home which we have carried on far beyond a reasonable time. “What seems to be required on both sides of the Tasman Sea is a glorification of motherhood which will make such an impression on some of our younger sisters that they will lose some of their interest in lipstick.”