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Kōrero: Voluntary welfare organisations

Plunket Line cuts

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Plunket Line, a Plunket Society initiative providing telephone advice on child health issues to parents, suffered a setback in 2006 when its government funding was withdrawn. Instead the government began funding another 24-hour telephone health advice line.

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Margaret Tennant, Voluntary welfare organisations – The 21st century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/29101/plunket-line-cuts (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Margaret Tennant, i tāngia i te 24 February 2011.