VALUABLE WORK

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20275, 18 August 1937, Page 9

VALUABLE WORK

CRIPPLED CHILDREN.

QUESTION OF EDUCATION.

(by Telegraph.—press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. An assurance of the Government’s wholehearted sympathy with the work of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society was given by the Minister of Health and Education, the Hon. P. Fra-ser, when officially opening the second annual meeting. Mr Fraser commended the efforts already made to alleviate the lot of those in whose interests the society was established. He said the two departments of which he was the head came into close contact with the society’s work, and there was a desire to help in every possible way. In a letter, the president, Mr Justice Smith, apologising for his .absence, referred to the establishment of women’s auxiliaries as a stroke of insight, and described the taking over of the Wilson Home by the Auckland Hospital Board as an admirable solution of a financial difficulty admirably effected. Sir Alexander Roberts, who presided, eulogised the work accomplished by the branches during the year. It was decided to arrange a conference with the Education Department to investigate the whole question of the education of crippled children and to endeavour to arrive at a satisfactory scheme. Health Camp at Rotorua. It was decided, on a remit from tho Hawke's Bay branch, that the society should endeavour to have part of the funds collected for the King George V. Memorial Fund applied to the establishment of a permanent health camp at Rotorua. A Wellington remit regarding provision for adequate teaching and nursing of crippled children was passed. It was suggested that representations be made to the proper authorities for the exchanging of nursing sisters and teachers in charge of crippled children in New Zealand with overseas nurses and teachers. In connection with the grant of £IOOO received from the Government, It was decided that the New Zealand executive distribute it to branches for the education in preparation for life of cripples under tho society’s care. Officers Elected. The election of officers resulted:— PaJ.ron, Her Excellency Lady Galway; president, Mr Justice Smith; vicepresidents, tho Anglican Archbishop and Primate, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, the Roman Catholic Archbishop, the president of the New Zealand -Conference of the Methodist

Church, Hie Commissioner of the Salvation Army, the presidents of the New Zealand British Medical Association, New Zealand Red Cross Society, Plunket Society, Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, and the Women's Institute, Sir George Richardson, Sir Alexander Roberts, Sir Robert Anderson, Sir Charles Norwood, Dr. Stanley Wallis, Dr. H. D. Robertson, Dr. D. L. Taylor, Messrs W. R. AVilson, SWylie, J. J. Esson, G. L. Taylor, T. H. Lowry, F. Campbell, J. M. A. Ilott, F. C. Spratt, L. T. Watkins, W. TChurchwood, I. Neale, J. R. McKenzie, F. Mitchell, Mesdames W. R. Wilson, T. -C. List, tKnox Gilmer, and Dr. 11. P. and Mrs Pickerell; executive, Sir Alexander Roberts, Dr. F- Bowerbank, Dr. Alex Gillies, Messrs F. Campbell, H. E. Anderson, J. M. A. Ilott, B. R. Dobbs, W. G. Black, S. L. P. Free, W. Hickson, and one associate member from Auckland, Canterbury and Otago; solicitors, Messrs F. C- Spratt and H. Taylor; treasurer, Mr Enest Hunt; secretary, Mr Malcolm Eraser; auditor, Mr W. 11. Naukcrvis.