"VISIONS OF SIR TRUBY."

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 10

"VISIONS OF SIR TRUBY."

ADVANCES IN PLUNKET WORK.! INFANTILE MORTALITY COMBAT. WATCHIXrt CHILD TO SCHOOL noon (By Telegraph.—Pros? Association.) PALMERSTOX X.. Friday. A new building for the Plunket Society in Palmor*ton Nortli was opened th':aftornoon hy Dr. Derrick, a-*djtam director of child welfare. Dr. Derrick --ated Sir Trilby Kine -til! had virion* of further advance* in Plunkct work, and was optimist";about i.eini: able to any them obi. Although the infant death rate nad he >n very much iediice<l !he percentage of death* war- -til! too I a rye ill the lir>: momh nf : : f,- .ir.d in l.averinj: that per- • hi \ further work for Plunkei -<.»i-ie;"!,.-. He believed the solution would •»e found '.11 lb,- oaie of t!i«. mother net ore tiic child «.1 - iiorn. Ihe -~-i,-;y v\.i« ~,,; lij, |.re-chool ,-hiid. There w.i- u iciuiencv t.. 10-e trace of ilic child from Is niontiiI,n: >l *ehoo] time, hut tliat would h. .overcome when T ;,.. :ai y ...,,i;,j )_,,.■ enlarged and they ! M J nt..,e m .ne\. A- a i-cMil! of tlie -eucro-i:_\ ,'; tm-j public the building w.i- opened free id debt. An announcement wa- made thai under the will of the late Mr. Hunu Shaw, of I'atea. the J'aimer-ion No-.tb .-ocie:y had received a Im*<|iu'-i of £lo«i.