PLUNKET SOCIETY

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16796, 21 July 1920, Page 4

PLUNKET SOCIETY

CHILD ‘WELFARE DEPARTMENT. Dlt. TRUBY KING WANTED. Per Press Association WELLINGTON, July 20. Tho sixth general conference. of the Royal New Zealand Society for tho Health of Women and Children opened to-day.' The Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Public Health and Education, announced his intention to launch a Department of Child Welfare'. . He said he had asked Mr. Massey to release Dr. Truby King from his present work anti allow*, him to become director of thy now -department. Tho decision rested with tho Prime Minister.