WORK THAT MUST NOT HALT.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1942, Page 2

WORK THAT MUST NOT HALT.

ALL who have given the matter any thought will be of one mind in declaring that the present war emergency emphasises the necessity of carrying on the work of the Pljiinket Society with unabated vigour. In time of war, indeed, the responsibilities of the society and the calls made upon its nurses and other workers are enlarged. The great community service of caring for the health and welfare- of mothers, infants and pre-school children becomes more than ever important. The society has its special part to play, also, in the Emergency Precautions Scheme and plans have been prepared under which branches throughout the Dominion will co-operate with local Emergency Precautions organisations regarding the care, in an emergency, of homeless mothers, babies and small children. The one thing to be feared, in these days of stress and disturbance, is that the needs and claims of the Plunket Society may for the moment be overlooked or forgotten by some of those who normally are numbered amongst its constant and loyal supporters. Since voluntary contribution is a vital element in the constitution and operation of the society—an element which helps to make it vastly more valuable and efficient than any purely official organisation could ever be—it is most, essential that the friends of the society should rally to its support. In Masterton they will have an opportunity of doing this very shortly. The local branch is about to make a house to house appeal for funds that are greatly needed. There has always been a generous response in this district to the society’s annua] appeal, in years both of peace and war. All that is necessary to ensure that standard being maintained no doubt is that the appeal should gain the wide attention it so fully merits.