LAID TO REST

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20423, 14 February 1938, Page 7

LAID TO REST

LATE BIR T. KING IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL (By Te!egr*nn—s^ftarient WELLINGTON, Sunday The many hundreds who attended the service at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral for the late Sir Trubv Kina:, founder of the Plunket Society, who died on Thursday, and the many thousands who lined the streets as the cortege passed on Its way to Mount Melrose, showed plainly how deeply they appreciated the wonderful work carried out by Sir Trubv over a lor.<r period. The funeral, which was a State one, was attended by a representative of the Governor-General, Lord Galway, members of the Legislature. City Council. Government departments and many other bodies. For three hours yesterday morning the body ©f Sir Truby King lay in state in St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral and there was a steady flow of visitors to the church. Plunket nurses, members of the Dominion council of the Plunket Society, and matrons of Karitane hospitals stood guard at the coffin four at a time. Three wreaths covered the coffin and remained on It during the funeral, one from the Government, one from Miss Mary Kinz. and one from the president and executive of the Plunket Society. The service was conducted by the Bishop of Wellington, the lit. Rev. If. St. Holland, assisted by the Rev. Gordon McKenzie. •* Service of Humnalty ** Y ** Tt !s the man rather than his achievements to whom our thoughts should turn as to-day we stand in the presence of his mortal remains and go forth from this cathedral reverently to lay his tired body to rest.” said Bishop Holland in an eloquent panegyric. Few who saw him in his lster years would guess that that body housed one of the greatest creative dynamic minds of the last generation. •* His eyes were those of a visionary, almost of the fanatic. He was a lonely man, as great visionaries always are, but the Mazing passion to achieve that vision, the innpr driving force within him. made him as well as a great visionary a great realist. He impoverished himself in his service to mothers and infants of New Zealand. He devoted all he had of spirit, intellect and material goods to the service of humanity.”

The passage of the corteze through the city was witnessed by thousands of people, hundreds of whom had taken up places of vantage an hour before the service. The pall-bearers were : The Minister of Health, the Hon. P. Fraser, the _ Minister of Finance, the Hon. \V. Nash, Mr Justice Blair, Dr. M. B. Tweed, Dr. T. G. Gray. Dr. M. H. Watt, Sir William Hunt. Sir Alexander Roberts, Mr P. F. Pat trick and Mr C. Scott. It was after half-past four when Sir Trubv King was laid to rest in the hilltop garden that he himself had created. QUEEN'S SYMPATHY LORD BLEDISLOE'S MESSAGE (Srecial to Times.) WELLINGTi >N. Sunday A message of sympathy from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth has been sent 4- to Miss Mary Kins, daughter of th-« late Sir Trilby King, who resides :n Australia. The cable message, which was sent to Wellington from Buckingham Palace. i«s as follows: I have heard with deep regret of the death of your father. Sir Frederick Truby Kin*, and I send you my heartfelt iji admiration for his unbounded devotion to the world-wide cause of infant welfare. Elizabeth R.” Another cable message from Viscount Bledlsloe received at Wellington was as follows: * negrel sad news. Truby King was one of the worlds greatest benefactors.” Cabled messages have also been received from Sir Charles and Lady Alice Fergusson. Lady Victoria Braithwaite, His Excellency Lord Gowrie, GovernorGeneral of Australia, and Lady Gowrie. and frc*n the London Canadian and Australian M~»the-r»raft Societies.