The society does not confine its energies to the maintenance of what is, to all intents and purposes, a children's hospital-the Karitane Home-at Anderson's Bay; its influence is carried into the town and throughout the suburbs into the homes where are to be found infants that suffer from feeding troubles.
In order that the advice of the Plunket nurse may be readily available to mothers who experience a difficulty in rearing their babies the society has secured the use of a room in the Post Office Buildings in Liverpool street, where the nurse may be interviewed, and the fact that as many as 110 babies are now being fed in accordance with the directions offered by her indicates that this recent departure on the part of the society is being appreciated by the mothers of delicate infants.
The scope of the society's work is, indeed, rapidly and widely extending, but this, while in itself a gratifying circumstance, entails a heavy demand upon funds that are not by any means inexhaustible.
With the view of assisting the finance of the society Dr Truby King has undertaken to give a popular illustrated lecture in the Garrison Hall on Thursday night next, and it is hoped that the public will evince its interest in the society, and its sympathy with the work it is performing, by extending liberal patronage to this event.
• On Saturday (says our Alexandra correspondent) a disastrous accident happened at the antimony mine.
One side of the smelting works was blown down as the result of gas escaping.
All the brickwork in the two chambers was removed by the sudden impact, while the roof and the other side were also affected.
At the time the works were giving every satisfaction, and the accident is an extremely unfortunate one for the company. - ODT, 14.8.1909.
