PLUNKET SOCIETY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1939, Page 4

PLUNKET SOCIETY

OBSERVATIONS BY HOSPITAL . BOARD MEMBER. When making some comment on the activities of the Masterton branch of r the Plunket Society at the February meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board, Mr Trevor Beetham said he did not wish to convey any impression that would be detrimental to the society. He had suggested that the society should make a small charge for each case treated and had stated that at the Masterton Show the society had attended to 51 babies, for which it had received the magnificent sum of 3s 6d. Although he was fully aware that the society was only too willing and too pleased to give advice gratus and that the making of any charge was against the rules of the society, he was endeavouring to point out that, in return for the service it gave, the society would be quite justified in making a charge. His reference to the Masterton Show did not refer to the recent Show, but to a former occasion,-when, as he had stated, although quite a number of babies had been left in the care of the society’s workers while their mothers had enjoyed the Show, in return a very poor donation had been made to '.the society’s funds. He understood that the position at the last Masterton Show was quite different, as a charge was now being made for that service.