PLUNKET SOCIETY APPEAL.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1942, Page 2

PLUNKET SOCIETY APPEAL.

in past years a very good response is ’being made io the fund-raising appeal of the Masterton branch of the Plunket Society. There is a little difficulty in the fact that on account of petrol restrictions the society’s collectors are unable to visit some of the areas to which their activities normally extend, but it is not doubted that people who for that reason are not appealed to directly will, if they have not done so already, send in their donations as usual.

There is every indication that in spite of all adverse factors arising out of war conditions the Masterton branch of the society will be provided once again with the funds it needs. It may be hoped, too, that, this is typical of the support accorded to the Plunket Society elsewhere in this district and throughout the Dominion. The ability of the society to depend on sustained, voluntary support has an importance far exceeding that of the amount of money involved. Mifijiitained in part by freewill offerings in this way, the society keep alive the characteristics of spontaineity and initiam T fe-which have always counted for so much in its work and wli’idlr enable it to do that work to so much better effect than if it’ yy.ere a purely official, and departmental, organisation. Th| society has its loyal and expanding constituency, so to speak, in those upon whom it has conferred benefits —particularly the mothers who have been helped and guided in the rearing of their children by the devoted and enthusiastic nurses and othej*- active workers of the society. Tn this way and in others/the whole Plunket organisation rests upon the firm and encluyiftg basis envisaged by its great and enlightened founder, the late Sir Truby King.