"I TAKE NOTHING OUT."
SIR TRTTBY KING'S NOBI.E GIFT WIFE INSPIRED HIS WORK. "I brought nothing into the world, and I take nothing out of it," said Sir Truby King, when announcing that he intended to give his beautiful home, overlooking Lyall Bay and Cook Strait, to the Plunket Society for use as a maternity hospital. "I could never have done it," said Sir Tniby, in speaking of his work, "unless I had an ideal wife, and I would have the place called the ' Lady King Hospital.' I could not have carried out the work without Lady King's constant aid and support. As for me—there is nothing to thank me for. I have had a happy life, and this work I only took up when I was 50. It has brought me into contact with the noble women of this community, and there is no woman who is not noble when there is social service of this kind offering. I brought nothing into the world, and I take nothing out of it. I say, as a last word, with Emerson: 'The child is this perpetual -Messiah sent to bring fallen man back to paradise.'"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 179, 30 July 1932, Page 11
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