WORK FOR HUMANITY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 6, 18 October 1941, Page 7

WORK FOR HUMANITY.

LATE SIR TRUBY KING PRAISED.

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 16. Looking straight out across Lyall Bay from the dominant, picturesque grounds of Karitane Hospital on Melrose heights, Wellington, the simple but striking national memorial to the late Sir Truby King, founder of the Plunket Society, was unveiled by the Governor-General (Sir Cyril New-all) this afternoon.

Speeches by Sir Cyril Newall and the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser praised Sir Truby King’s work and a prayer was offered by the Bishop of‘Wellington. Among those present were Sin Harry Batterbee and the Canadian High Commissioner (Dr. Riddell) and Mrs Riddell, the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, the Mayor (Mr T. C. A. Hislop) and Mrs Hislop. Sir Cyril Newall said the work which Sir Truby King did in his lifetime and which was being carried on by the Plunket Society to-day made a glorious chapter in the living history of New Zealand. “It is a chapter which epitomises the civilisation which we are fighting to save.- Thanks largely to his devoted labours New Zealand can proudly claim the lowest rate of infant mortality in the world. We must be determined that the health of her citizens of all ages shall attain the same standard. Only by the realisation of that resolve can we prove ourselves worthy of a fellow countryman to whom the world owes so much.” Mr Fraser said New Zealand had produced many men of ability and greatness in its first hundred years, but none ranked higher as a result of his life’s work than Sir Truby King, whose influence in a humanitarian sphere had been felt in practically every country in the world.