CRIPPLED CHILDREN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 6

CRIPPLED CHILDREN

PUBLIC NOT TAKEN INTO CONFIDENCE.

CHARGE BY MASTERTON TRUST MEMBER.

A charge that the Crippled Children’s Society did not take the public into its confidence was made at last night's meeting of the Trust Land’s Trust by Mr A. Owen Jones, in the course of a discussion on the claims of the society for a grant. Mr J. Macfarlane Laing drew the attention of Trustees to the good work being done by the society and to its need of finances.

Mr Jones said the society had not taken the public into its confidence. He had never seen a published account of income and expenditure. “The pub--lie,” he said, “do like to see what money they have, what they have received and what they have expended. For all the years the society has been, going ...”

A member: “Only two years.” “Many people ask what are they doing,” continued Mr Jones. “The public must be taken into their confidence. If the public can see that they are doing good work and that their income is diminishing the public will support them.” Mr H. H. Daniell pointed out that the public did not want to know about the society. He reminded them that the public had not attended the annual meeting, which had to be postponed and at the postponed meeting there was a very small attendance. He said that if the society came along later in the year for a grant it should be considered. “The public has been taken into its confidence,” said Mr Daniell, “and it did not want to know about it.”

The matter was left in abeyance meantime.