FOUNDER'S DAY

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 4

FOUNDER'S DAY

Messages Received By Plunket Society Messages on the occasion of Pounder's Day were received by the Plunket Society front Lady Galway, patron of the society, the Prime Minister and Mrs. Eraser. Lady Galway’s message is as follows :— “As patroness of the Plunket Society, I should like, on the occasion of its thirty-third birthday, to send my personal greetings anil a message of encouragement, to all of those who are connected with the movement in New Zealand. “On each successive anniversary of its foundation, our thoughts turn back to dwell with deep gratitude on its devoted and public-spirited founders —Sir Trilby and Lady King—and the great and fasting contribution that they have made Io public welfare. “I feel, as now we arc, alas, once more at war, that the patriotic nature of the work of the society becomes even more vividly marked than at normal times, and efforts for its maintenance and growth stiould be redoubled for the sake of the future of our race. “May I wish it, with ail my heart, years of prosperity and expansion in the future, comparable with what lias gone before.” Mrs. Eraser’s message was in the form of a letter to Mrs. James Begg, Dominion president of the society, as follows: — “In response to your kind invitation it gives me the utmost pleasure on the occasion of your memorable Founder’s Dav to extend to all your members throughout the Dominion a message of greeting and goodwill. Through the inspired, distinguished leadership of the late Sir Truliy King your organization will forever be asosciated with the cause of humanity. Countless mothers have reason to remember with gratitude the name of your founder, and I sincerely trust that your worthy aim to keep fresh his memory and that of the birth of your society will be crowned with well-merited success. “With kind regards to yourself and the members of the society.”

A telegram received by the president of the Wellington branch of the society at the Founder’s Day celebrations yesterday afternoon, was as follows: "I very much regret that I cannot be present this afternoon, but I join with you in paying tribute to the great founder of your movement. Sir Truby King has taken his place in the history of the modern age as a great benefactor, and we in New Zealand are not likely to let his memory fade. May the valuable humanitarian work of tlie society he founded continue to flourish and expand. (Signed) P. FRASEK.”