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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1222, 19 March 1914, Page 2

“ New Zealand,” said Earl Grey to a Christchurch Press representative, ‘‘ through Dr, Truby King, is giving an example to the whole of the world of how to save infantile life.” There is no taint of over-praise in these judgments (comments the Dunedin Star). The man and his work speak for themselves. Let every Dunedin citizen repeat, until he knows them by heart, these words: “ The infantile mortality rate for Dunedin is the lowest in the world,” and he will not only have fixed in his mind the most outstanding fact of the social life of his own city, but he will have summed up in a few words the most impressive feature of Dr. King’s life-work. The men and women of Dunedin do well to honour such a man and to welcome his return. There are few men to whom greater gifts have been given to fit him for the work to which he is devoted. Where so many able men fail in all walks of life is that they lack imagination. They make excellent statesmen and preachers and professors, but they have not the one thing needful. Theirs is not that imaginative faculty which glorifies and illuminates the faith they hold, and that enables its possessor to convince his hearers and to inspire them with something at least of the faith that is his. Dr, Truby King, in his finer moments, can make luminous the seemingly dullest of subjects, and hold to their seats the most unlikely of audiences. Perhaps the highest compliment ever paid him was that of a reporter, who closed his note-book and, with folded arms, sat and listened for an hour to that splendid torrent of rhetoric that Dr. King rarely fails to command. Enriched by travel and association with men eminent in many walks of life, brimful of the newest and latest and best in his own particular line of study, Dr. Truby King is a greater asset to the community than ever.

During the course ot his remarks at the opening ceremony of the new Salvation Army Hall last night, Commissioner Richards gave some intormation in connection with the Army's operations in this country during the period (a year and nine months) since the Dominion had been constituted a separate territory, which Is evidence of the marvellous vitality of the Army’s social operations. He said that property had been purchased and buildings erected during the period mentioned, totalling ,£40,000, which included maternity homes (one each in Dunedin, Auckland, and Wellington), a training college at Wellington costing ,£13,000,* six new halls had been erected in different parts of the Dominion, of which Foxtou’s edifice was the smallest, sections had been purchased in different parts as sites for new buildings, and a sum of ,£2,500 had been set aside for acquiring property in rising townships. Of the total amount, a generous public had voluntarily contributed nearly ,£20,000, inclusive of ,£11,500 towards the cost of the training college in Wellington. The Army’s social operations justify the support of the Government and the general public, and we believe that the

time is not far distant when tbe State will hand over to the Army the administrative control of its prison reform institutions.