Rarotonga Baby Show
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, Nov. 5.
A PUBLIC holiday was declared for the annual Baby Show (Maori), in Raro tonga, on October 25.
There was a large gathering in the school grounds to witness the judging and presentation of prizes, and the sporting events arranged for the welfare workers. The judges had a long and difficult task in selecting the champion baby and prize-winners for the various classes. The Resident Commissioner, Mr.
W. Tailby, presided, and Mrs. Tailby pre sented the prizes, and a happy and friendly atmosphere prevailed throughout the >day’s proceedings.
No one who has the well-being of the Polynesian race at heart can fail to appreciate the splendid work being done t>v the members of the Rarotonga Child Welfare’ Association; or, above all, to applaud the vision and guidance of its founder, Dr. E. P. Ellison. It is no easy task to instil the principles of modern mothercraft into a people so recently emerged—or still emerging—from the customs and superstitions of a stone-age existence.
Certainly there was no suggestion of stone-age apparent in this gathering of neatly-dressed Polynesian mothers, and their equally clean, neatly-dressed and
healthy-looking babies.