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Gisborne's Play-Centre

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Gisborne's biggest family of toddlers is on parade above, outside the Y.M.C.A. They are the children who, three mornings a week, attend the newly-formed Nursery Play-Centre there. Started by the Y.M.C.A., the centre is now under control of the Y.M.C.A. Play-Centre Committee, and is staffed by a trained supervisor and two mothers in rotation. Our photographs show some of the children's activities.

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It takes two to ride this hobby horse.

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Three of the boys stop work for the camera.

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The attractions of the "dough table" are obvious. Children who attend are in age group 2½ years to 5 years.

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Nursery Play-Centre movement, now nation-wide, is based on mutual help; among mothers—a pooling of time, supervision, play material, and work for. the good of all. Finance comes from small grant, attendance levies, and; local fund-raising.

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Indoors activity for little girls includes "making beds" in the dolls' corner.

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Random shots in the nursery.

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While girls are busy with such humdrum tasks, what's better for a boy than a lucky dip in the block box?