SIR TRUBY KING'S HOME
GIFT .TO PLUNKET SOCIETY USE AS MATERNITY HOSPITAL [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Thursday His intention to hand over his beautiful Wellington home on Melrose Heights, adjoining the grounds of the Karitane Home, to the Plunket Society for a maternity hospital was announced by Sir Truby King at the annual meeting of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children this evening. The anouncement made a deep impression upon those present and at the conclusion of Sir Truby's speech, Dr. Platts Mills asked all present to stand in honour of a great man who had been such an inspiration to all. Sir Truby said the gift was subject to tho consent of his executor, the Public Trustee, who had seen his daughter safeguarded, but he thought the property could be handed over within a year. Sir Truby added that the whole of the furniture, including a piano, pictures and other valuables, was included in the gift.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21247, 29 July 1932, Page 8
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