PLUNKET FACTORY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 9

PLUNKET FACTORY

NEARLY COMPLETED IN AUSTRALIA SIR TRUBY KING RETURNS High Australian customs tariffs are being avoided by the Karitane Products factory which is being constructed under the Plunket system at Redfern. r jPHIS news is brought, to New Zealand by Sir Truby King, who has spent the past month in Sydney promoting the organisation of child welfare work. “The organisation is going ahead very well indeed,” he told The Sun after his arrival at Auckland this mornning on the Marama. “Steady progress is being maintained, and additions are being made to our premises in Sydney and Melbourne. ‘‘The work of the society is beingcarried on under different names in different states: for instance, in Sydney, the organisation is called the Australian Mothercraft Society, Plunket System. Their hospital is known as the Karitane Hospital. “I gave a few lectures, but was occupied mostly in extending the work. The task that is engaging our special attention at present is the completion of the factory at Redfern which will be completely equipped and in full working order about the middle of January.

“It will then be capable of supplying Plunket preparations—Kariol and Karilac —to infants throughout the whole of Australia. A for this purpose was rendered necessary by the increasing protective tariffs of the Commonwealth which tend to become more and more prohibitive in certain directions.”