NEW KARITANE HOME

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 7

NEW KARITANE HOME

A DEBT-FREE CAMPAIGN BY THE TIME THE DUCHESS OF YORK ARRIVES Mr. Hugh J. Ward left for the south eu route to Melbourne last evening. Before leaving he expressed his appredation of tbe kindness and gener cus hospitality which had been accorded to him during his visit to \\ e , ton, and the pleasure experienced on renewing so many of his old friendships. Mr. Ward said he had noted with some surprise the progress which the city had made since he was last here some fifteen years ago. Everywhere he looked the old wooden buildings were giving way to pretentious concrete buildings. Wellington seemed -to be pinning her faith to epne’-et . as against brick. All the big building, going up were in concrete; the new wharves were built of concrete, and the sea walls were similarly constructed. “During my stay in Wellington,, said Mr. Ward, “it has been my privilege to be shown over the site of tne new Karitane Training Home at.Melrose, and to have many chats .with fair Truby King, who is. doing such a great work among you. This work is so grea that you people living so close to it and its founder cannot appreciate its real value to the world. Statistics they say can be made to prove anythin That is an exaggeration. If one said statistics in the hands of the unscrupu - ous could be made to prove anything it might be nearer the truth... But as applied to the new form of baby treatment, no one doubted the statistical fact that New Zealand records fewer deaths per 1000 of population in infants than any country in the world. That is a wonderful thing, for the prosperity of a young country like New Zealand largely depends on the natural increase of its population. 'Youth will be served,’ is a very old saying; and it is a vita! truth when one says a progressive country must be served by its vouth.’ . “The new home upon the hill is going Lo be a fine monument'to the movement, for from its walls those taught the new and proper way to care for infants will go forth to spread the Karitane doctrine to the ends of the earth. . , , , “I am quite sure that the people of Wellington will not be backward‘when thev are asked to subscribe the balance of the money required to pay for the home. I have conferred.. with many gentlemen in Wellington interested in the project, and as the result a campaign will be instituted early in the new year, which T am hoping will mean' that the English patroness of the movement, the Duchess of Aork, will, when she declares the new home open in March, be able to say that it is debt free. “Mv slogan for the campaign is: 'Rvervone who has been a baby must give!’”