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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 66, 19 March 1936, Page 10

In search of material for biography of Sir Truby Iving, her famous father, Miss Mary Truby King was recently a visitor from Australia to New Plymouth, Sir Truby’s birthplace. It was almost solely due to the efforts of Sir Truby that the Dominion’s reputation for the lowest infant mortality in the world was acquired and that mother-craft is now a world-wide science, but Sir Truby’s interest in the welfare of babies is scarcely nioie than that of his daughter, who superintends the Truby King Mothercraft Society in Australia from the Sydney centre. She remarked that the society’s objects met with such a wide demand that there was now an acute shortage of trained Karitane nurses and a well recommended Karitane nurse would have no clitii 1 culty in finding employment in Australia. As yet. Miss King said, infant mortality in Australia was higher than in New Zealand, but steaiy application to the problem was gradually bringing it lower. She urged the need to improve training in obstetrics of medical students and to raise the standard of training for maternity nurses and midwives. A considerable advance could also Sib made in the edu--.ati.-i-. ji you-i; parents in the responsibilities of pirenthood. Kesearch work into the unknown causes of maternal and infantile deaths should be richly endowed, she said.