OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17972, 18 March 1930, Page 8

OBSTETRICAL SOCIETY.

RESPONSE TO APPEAL. AUCKLAND DISTRICT DOING WELL. (Bty Telegraph.—Press Association.) f STRATFORD, Tuesday. » Dr. Doris Gordon, secretary of the New Zealand Obstetrical Society, stated , to-day that the latest advices showed , that donatiqns to the obstetrical endowment appeal totalled: In the Well- : ington provincial district, over £3000; ; Canterbury, £2000; Otago, £I2OO. p The Auckland returns were not yet ij announced, but she anticipated that !! when they were revealed it would be found that Auckland was leading the Dominion. Through the Taranaki and Wanganui districts there was a solid chain of donations from public bodies, : borough councils, county councils, >: hospital boards, etc., who recognised ’’ that the matter of securing midwifery 7 endowment money at this juncture was ?! a grave civic responsibility. The t latest public body reported to have made a donation was the Wanganui Harbour Board. | The menfolk are realising that as this cause concerns the men just as much as it concerns the women it is : not fair to leave all the hard collecting work to women, and several Rotary • Clubs -have already expressed their in-

| t.ention of assisting. A group of | younger men in the Inglewood district | have just shown similar chivalry by announcing that they are going to run I a men’s carnival. ;■ Dr. Gordon said there was a large 1 body of workers collecting, and in i most places the sacrifice of the col- •: lectors was being rewarded by donations proportionate to the resources of I the givers and the urgency of the call, but some few areas were inclined to respond in shillings only, whereas ; the appeal was for whatever the giveis 1 could afford.