DR. TRUBY KING

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 131, 4 June 1924, Page 4

DR. TRUBY KING

NOTABLE OMISSION FROM

HONOURS.

Referring to the Birthday Honours, the "Evening Post" commented yesterday on the omission from the list of a New'Zealander whose services in the interests of health and humanitv, especially on beh'alf of women and children, were deserving of recognition. The same view is taken by the "New Zealand Herald," which says:—"So far as the list goes, its contents are irreproachable. Again, however, there .is a- notable omission. No really adequate acknowledgment has yet been made of the unusual debt of gratitude owed by the country to' Dr. TrubyKing. He has been decorated, it is true, but without disparaging any past recipients of honours; it can be said, emphatically that merit less than his has been more highly rewarded. Another opportunity has been lost. The addition of his name to to-day's list would have disr tinguished further its present high degree of merit." . ■:■'■■

At the annual meeting of the Auckland, branch of the Plunket Society Dr. Truby King's work was referred to by Canon Percival James (telegraphs "The Post's" Auckland / correspondent). He said that in England a clergyman was occasioned a lot or work in being called out at a moment's notice to baptise dying children. When he first came to New Zealand he found that very few of these calls were received, and lie began to fear that babies were being allowed to die without being baptised. However, he soon learned .to his" joy that babies of New Zealand were not dying at all, and to the Plunket Society could be attributed this admirable state of affairs. Continuing, he expressed the opinion that •when New Zealand had a calendar of saints the list should be headed by Dr. Truby King, a benefactor not only of New Zealand but of the whole of mankind.