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Otago Daily Times
13-06-2025
- Health
- Otago Daily Times
Exhibit spotlights birth of Plunket
"Putting the power in women's own hands." The history of New Zealand's child health service Plunket will be the subject of a colourful display at the Waikouaiti Coast Heritage Centre from today. Plunket was formed in 1907 following a public meeting called by a Dunedin doctor, Truby King. Dr King (later Sir Truby King) was concerned about the child mortality rate and the lack of help and advice available to new mothers. The date of the first meeting was May 14, 1907, now known as Founder's Day. Waikouaiti Coast Heritage Centre committee chairman Ian Waters said the exhibition was a tribute to the creation of the Plunket Society at Karitane, the birthplace of the movement, founded by Dr King. "It's about celebrating the work he did in putting the power in women's own hands. "He helped to organise a committee, and then a society, and branches of Plunket throughout Otago, which served the purpose of training Plunket nurses and looking after babies that were undernourished," Mr Waters said. The name "Plunket" comes from the organisation's first patron and staunch supporter, Lady Victoria Plunket, wife of the then governor-general and a mother of eight. The exhibition features 5-1 scale models built by Mr Waters, including Plunket rooms and Dr King's beach hospital at Karitane, where many babies were nursed back to health. The hospital operated from 1907 to 1909 before it was relocated to the Dunedin suburb of Andersons Bay, Mr Waters said. "It was originally in Dr King's holiday beach house and he negotiated a property in Andersons Bay. It was given by a very wealthy businessman called Wolf Harris who was an importer," he said. The property included stables that became the first nursing hostel, where Dr King lived, and there were up to 30 babies within the first year being cared for there. As the hostel grew "through the war years", Plunket expanded and was relocated to Andersons Bay, where it ran until 1978, he said. The exhibition also features work from local artist Dinah Fear, who is also a volunteer at the museum. Fear had painted murals of key Plunket locations, including the Andersons Bay Karitane Hospital and Dr King's mausoleum on Melrose Hill in Wellington, Mr Waters said. "Her work is fantastic and it brings things to life," he said. The exhibition will be opened by Elyse Childs, the great-great-granddaughter of Joanna MacKinnon, the first-ever Plunket nurse. The heritage centre will also show a five-minute film about her life and other items from the movement. "Elyse Childs will talk about Joanna's life and she's got a real treasure trove, the first Plunket medal, so that will be on display." The mortality rate of babies was the main driving factor for Dr King's establishment of Plunket. After a visit to Japan in 1904, where he observed that Asian babies were five times less likely to die in infancy than New Zealand babies, Dr King started producing his own milk and cod liver oil emulsions to help improve the health of babies. The exhibition runs for 12 months.
Scoop
04-06-2025
- Business
- Scoop
NZNO Backs People's Pay Equity Select Committee
Press Release – NZNO NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses College chair Tracey Morgan says it was devastating to the 5000 primary health care members that their claim was scuppered without warning or legitimate reason. Representing a third of the pay equity claims scrapped by the Coalition Government, NZNO is throwing its full support behind the People's Select Committee on Pay Equity. Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) had 12 pay equity claims being progressed across the health sector including aged care, primary health care, hospices, Plunket, community health and laboratories when the scheme was gutted on 6 May. These claims covered almost 10,000 nurses, health care assistants, allied health workers and administration staff. A further 35,000 NZNO Te Whatu Ora members had their pay equity review halted by the changes, meaning their pay would again fall behind. NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses College chair Tracey Morgan says it was devastating to the 5000 primary health care members that their claim was scuppered without warning or legitimate reason. 'It was antidemocratic and an attack on women for the Government not to have consulted the workers whose lives they were changing. Primary and community health care nurses, like their hospice, Plunket and aged care counterparts, accepted lower wage increases in their collective agreements on the understanding they were likely to receive pay equity settlements. 'Now they can have their say through the People's Select Committee on Pay Equity. 'The committee of 10 former women MPs from across the political spectrum are strong wahine who helped establishment the previous system to address the gender discrimination which has kept down their wages their whole working lives.' Most New Zealanders – 68 percent – believe the Government should have consulted on the changes, a new poll released today found. Tracey Morgan says NZNO urges all its members to submit their views to the Select Committee so they can be heard when it meets in August.
Scoop
04-06-2025
- Business
- Scoop
NZNO Backs People's Pay Equity Select Committee
Press Release – NZNO NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses College chair Tracey Morgan says it was devastating to the 5000 primary health care members that their claim was scuppered without warning or legitimate reason. Representing a third of the pay equity claims scrapped by the Coalition Government, NZNO is throwing its full support behind the People's Select Committee on Pay Equity. Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) had 12 pay equity claims being progressed across the health sector including aged care, primary health care, hospices, Plunket, community health and laboratories when the scheme was gutted on 6 May. These claims covered almost 10,000 nurses, health care assistants, allied health workers and administration staff. A further 35,000 NZNO Te Whatu Ora members had their pay equity review halted by the changes, meaning their pay would again fall behind. NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses College chair Tracey Morgan says it was devastating to the 5000 primary health care members that their claim was scuppered without warning or legitimate reason. 'It was antidemocratic and an attack on women for the Government not to have consulted the workers whose lives they were changing. Primary and community health care nurses, like their hospice, Plunket and aged care counterparts, accepted lower wage increases in their collective agreements on the understanding they were likely to receive pay equity settlements. 'Now they can have their say through the People's Select Committee on Pay Equity. 'The committee of 10 former women MPs from across the political spectrum are strong wahine who helped establishment the previous system to address the gender discrimination which has kept down their wages their whole working lives.' Most New Zealanders – 68 percent – believe the Government should have consulted on the changes, a new poll released today found. Tracey Morgan says NZNO urges all its members to submit their views to the Select Committee so they can be heard when it meets in August.
Scoop
04-06-2025
- Business
- Scoop
NZNO Backs People's Pay Equity Select Committee
Representing a third of the pay equity claims scrapped by the Coalition Government, NZNO is throwing its full support behind the People's Select Committee on Pay Equity. Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) had 12 pay equity claims being progressed across the health sector including aged care, primary health care, hospices, Plunket, community health and laboratories when the scheme was gutted on 6 May. These claims covered almost 10,000 nurses, health care assistants, allied health workers and administration staff. A further 35,000 NZNO Te Whatu Ora members had their pay equity review halted by the changes, meaning their pay would again fall behind. NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses College chair Tracey Morgan says it was devastating to the 5000 primary health care members that their claim was scuppered without warning or legitimate reason. "It was antidemocratic and an attack on women for the Government not to have consulted the workers whose lives they were changing. Primary and community health care nurses, like their hospice, Plunket and aged care counterparts, accepted lower wage increases in their collective agreements on the understanding they were likely to receive pay equity settlements. "Now they can have their say through the People's Select Committee on Pay Equity. "The committee of 10 former women MPs from across the political spectrum are strong wahine who helped establishment the previous system to address the gender discrimination which has kept down their wages their whole working lives." Most New Zealanders - 68 percent - believe the Government should have consulted on the changes, a new poll released today found. Tracey Morgan says NZNO urges all its members to submit their views to the Select Committee so they can be heard when it meets in August.
Otago Daily Times
30-05-2025
- Automotive
- Otago Daily Times
Canada to exhibit
A building frame awaits cladding at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition construction site on Logan Park. — Otago Witness, 19.5.1925 The cow with the crumpled horn The Canadian Government will accept the invitation to be represented at the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition. It will participate the same as at Wembley, providing the Canadian manufacturers like advantage of the opportunity offered to show goods. The department of Immigration and Colonisation promises that if the Canadian manufacturers and exporters respond to the invitation a general information bureau will be established with office space for the officials in charge in addition to the accommodation for exhibitors. It is expected that the Canadian Manufacturers' Association will make an announcement shortly. A motorist was proceeding along a country road near Oamaru when he collided with a cow that was lying on the thoroughfare. One of the horns of the cow penetrated the radiator of the car, and was broken off. The cow got up and shook herself, and appeared to be little the worse for her adventure. The car had to be taken to a garage to have the horn removed. 16km walk to support Plunket An instance of very real appreciation of the work of the Plunket nurse came under the notice of the Plunket meeting at Weston. There was present a mother who had walked five miles, pushing before her a pram containing a beautiful healthy infant 15 months old. She had to walk the return journey and, at the end of it, set to work to milk cows. She said she owed the health of her child to Plunket Nurse Stephenson and she felt it was the least she could do to attend the meeting to show her sympathy and appreciation. Such gratitude as this is a great incentive to a nurse making her feel that there is no work more worth while than hers. It gaits a bit to the left, mate With the introduction of four-wheel braking systems, which bid fair to become somewhere akin to standard practice in modern car design, there has arisen the necessity for more satisfactory means of making adjustments. In the case of front wheel brakes, there is a condition which calls for most careful design and construction to ensure equal braking on both wheels, otherwise steering troubles will be set up and the safety of the vehicle will be endangered. There is, in many designs of front brake gear, the grave possibility of upsetting the balance of the braking or retarding force and so making the system dangerous by reason of severely straining the steering arrangements. Poppy money to employ diggers The Reserves Committee of the City Council will propose the under-mentioned allocation of expenditure of Poppy Day funds raised by the Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association: Anzac square filling-in, rolling, sowing and laying down plot, £50. Rhododendron Dell trenching, clearing and extending of previous work, £100. Bathgate Park excavation for tennis courts, £80. Maori Hill extension of tennis courts and playing grounds, £25. Leith Gardens extension of shrubbery, clearing etc, £80. In addition to the above, the council has also available £100 for the Rhododendron Dell work and £25 of garden fete money for work at Maori Hill. Returned soldiers only will be employed on these operations, commencement being made at once. — ODT, 1.6.1925 Compiled by Peter Dowden
