MOTHERS’ HELP SOCIETY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 6

MOTHERS’ HELP SOCIETY

TO-DAY the Mothers’ Helpers’. Society is appealing for public support. This society is run on the same lines as that established fourteen years ago in Wellington, where the society employs twelve helpers. The main objectives of the society are: One, to raise the status of domestic help and in that it is undertaking a very good but difficult task. The management of a home requires appropriate training, a.)d domestic help that is efficient produces very valuable results. Unfortunately, these results are not assessable on a cash basis as is office or factory help, because a home is not » producing financial values but human values. It is possibly because domestic help is so often looked upon as an expense instead of as an investment in comfort and wellbeing that domestic assistance has never been given full marks. The second objective of the society is to provide assistance which is efficient, by daily visitation to mothers and other women who are in need of it. Grants from the Government and other sources will be available when the society is firmly established, but public support on the financial side is necessary during the initial stages as assistance is rendered irrespective of whether the mothers visited are in a position to pay or noj. It is a good cause.