PLUNKET WORK

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1929, Page 9

PLUNKET WORK

•NoING AHEAD WELL.” SIR TRUBY KING RETURNS. Auckland, Dec. 17. “Plunket work is going ahead well in Australia,” said Sir Truby King, who arrived at Auckland by the Marama from Sydney this morning. “Some thousands of pounds are being spent in Melbourne making additions to the Karitane Hospital there, and in establishing more suburban centres for district Plunket work. “Matters are moving in the same direction in Sydney,” continued Sir Truby, “and at the Karitane Hospital there they have just added a wellequipped and up-to-date laundry, and other improvements are under way, including the doubling of the accommodation of the central pr mises in Elizabeth Street to meet the increasing requirements. A new centre for Plunket nurses has just been started at Redfern suburb, with 25,000 of a population. This latter is in connection with the factory of the Karitane Products Society, which will be in full working order about the middle of January. It will bo capable of turning out Plunket feeding preparations for infants, which up till now have been made in Wellington and shipped to Australia. The new factory will be capable of turning out enough of these foodstuffs for the whole of the Commonwealth.” When questioned as to how this w’ould affect the Wellington factory, Sir Truby King replied: “So far as New Zealand is concerned, tho effect will be negligible, because the extremely high tariff wall in Australia has provided an effective barrier against export from the Dominion. For nr’ co, there is now a4O per cent, protective duty again Plunket emulsion, etc., and this has made Australian price for Kariol and. Karilae so high as to be almost prohibitive. The contrast between this and the British policy of absolute free trade is very striking. The new Australian tariff, which has just been established, makes tho contrast even more emphatic than heretofore.’