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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3211, 2 August 1932, Page 5

Evidence that the postal authorities have traced agents for the Irish hospitals’ sweepstakes is contained in the Gazette. The SAveepstakes are under the postal ban, and participants have had to resort to camouflage addresses to obtain tickets. Eleven of these overseas addresses are enumerated in the Gazette, with an announcement that postal matter will not be forwarded to them from New Zealand.

The intention to give 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. The announcement made a deep impression on those present, and at the conclusion of Sir T'ruby’s speech Dr Platts-Mills asked all present to stand in honour of the great man who had been such an inspiration to all. Sir Truby King said the gift was subject to the consent of his executor, the Public Trustee, who had to see his (Sir Truby’s) daughter safeguarded, hut he thought the property would be transferred to the Society within a year. He added that the whole of the furniture, including pictures, piano, and other valuables, was included in the gift.