NEW ZEALAND’S PRIME MINISTER (HON. W. F. MASSEY) OPENS A MOTHERCRAFT TRAINING CENTRE IN LONDON. The Hon. W. F. Massey lately opened at Earl’s Court, London, a Mothercraft Training Centre on New Zealand lines. He said that 15 years ago his Government established a Public Health Department. Unofficially connected with that department was a voluntary organisation for motherhood training and infant welfare. Through its agency thousands of infant lives had been saved, and the death rate per 1000 of children under 12 months was now only 48, as compared with 100 in Great Britain and the United States, and from 75 to 125 in Australia, Canada and South Africa. DR. TRUBY KING, who left Dunedin specially with a view to assisting in the great movement at Home for the preservation of infant life, is shown on the left of picture. BELGIAN ORCHESTRA ARRIVES IN LONDON. THE ORCHESTRA, COMPOSED OF BELGIAN SOLDIERS, WHICH RECENTLY PAID A VISIT TO ENGLAND, IS SHOWN ARRIVING AT VICTORIA STATION, LONDON, WHERE THEY WERE MET BY COUNTESS CURZON OF MEDLESTON.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1481, 12 September 1918, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND’S PRIME MINISTER (HON. W. F. MASSEY) OPENS A MOTHERCRAFT TRAINING CENTRE IN LONDON. The Hon. W. F. Massey lately opened at Earl’s Court, London, a Mothercraft Training Centre on New Zealand lines. He said that 15 years ago his Government established a Public Health Department. Unofficially connected with that department was a voluntary organisation for motherhood training and infant welfare. Through its agency thousands of infant lives had been saved, and the death rate per 1000 of children under 12 months was now only 48, as compared with 100 in Great Britain and the United States, and from 75 to 125 in Australia, Canada and South Africa. DR. TRUBY KING, who left Dunedin specially with a view to assisting in the great movement at Home for the preservation of infant life, is shown on the left of picture.

BELGIAN ORCHESTRA ARRIVES IN LONDON. THE ORCHESTRA, COMPOSED OF BELGIAN SOLDIERS, WHICH RECENTLY PAID A VISIT TO ENGLAND, IS SHOWN ARRIVING AT VICTORIA STATION, LONDON, WHERE THEY WERE MET BY COUNTESS CURZON OF MEDLESTON.