LATE SIR TRUBY KING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21001, 1 April 1938, Page 10

LATE SIR TRUBY KING

PLUNKET SOCIETY’S KEEN SENSE OF LOSS By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, March 31. Reference to the loss suffered by the society in the death of its founder, Sir Truby King, wsa made at the halfyearly. meeting of the Dominion Council of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (Plunket Society). “We meet in the shadow of the loss the society has suffered in the death of its founder,” said the president Mrs James Begg. “Up to this time the council has been strengthened and sustained by the knowledge that Sir Truby King was still with us even when increasing frailty prevented him from attending personally to give us the benefit of his sure and far-seeing advice. The magic of his name and memory of his dynamic personality inspired the deliberations of the council.’”

The following resolution was recorded.—“At this the first meeting of the council of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children since the death of our beloved founder, Sir Truby King, we place on record our devotion to the fundamental ideals of the movement as laid down by him. During his long association with the Society, extending over 31 years.- the late Sir Truby King gave to us his active guidance, and much research was carried out with the object of perfecting the Plunket system of feeding. I* will be the object of the Society to continue this research so that it can at all times be kept abreast of modern developments in this country and abroad. The society is not static but will continue to develop on the same broad lines which have marked its history go date. As a council we realise our responsibility to the mothers and babies of New Zealand, and it shall be our constant endeavour to see that the trust imposed on us is not misplaced.”