LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1940, Page 4

LEAGUE OF MOTHERS

MONTHLY MEETING HELD YESTERDAY. WORK OF RED CROSS. The monthly meeting of the League of Mothers was held in the Parish Hall yesterday. The president. Mrs L. B. Maunsell, was in the chair and there was an exceptionally large attendance of members and friends present. After the League hymn and prayer there followed a Prayer for Peace and all stood in silence to the memory of the late Prime Minister. Mr M. J. Savage. . The speaker for the day was Matron Barnett, of Masterton Hospital. In her opening remarks she explained the work of the Red Cross in the Masterton district. At a widely representative meeting held recently the work which called for volunteers had been divided into two circles. The first circle was to prepare articles for hospital use. tlie convenor being Mrs A. Stewart, Essex Street. The second circle had undertaken to make refugee garments which would be sent through the Red Cross to Finland. Mrs Tolhurst was in charge of this section. A short play entitled "Measles in the Home" was staged by nurses from the hospital, witli accompanying explanations by Matron Barnett. The first scene showed how household equipment could be used in the scientific nursing of an infectious disease and stressed tlie importance of avoiding complications. The second scene explained the disinfecting of the patient and the room after the illness and the use of "convalescent serum." Miss Barnett and tlie nurses were heartily thanked for a most instructive afternoon. The tea hostesses were Mesdames Hendry. Madsen. Perrin. Kitchener. Darvili and Prior.