DR. TRUBY KING.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1917, Page 3

DR. TRUBY KING.

SUGGESTED MISSION TO GREAT BBITAK. The Christchurcli Press says: Wo understand that Dr. Truby King does not wish to be the gainer of a penny by changing the scene of his activities, and asked to name his own salary. All he will suggest should he be granted permission to go to England, is that the New Zealand Government be reimbursed his salary for the 15 months of his absence, so that they may have the wherewithal to pay a locum tenens at Seacliff.

Should Dr. King go to England we understand that he is assured of the services, on the completion of her military duties, of Nurse Pattriek, who lately resigned the matronship of the KaritaneHarris Hospital in order to take up war nursing, and in this direction New Zealand would be most capably represented. We hope to hear soon that the whole matter is arranged for. New Zealand hag here an opportunity to render the Empire some service. Says the Lyttelton Times :—This steady decline in the Dominion's rate of infant mortality has obviously saved to the country maiiy thousands of prospective/citizens, the majority of whom are males, and the improvement can unquestionably be traced in. a great measure diactly to the campaign of which Dr. Truly King has been the splendid head. The need of similar work in (Britain was always great and is rendered a thousand times greater by the war. The Government and the people should be proud of the high compliment paid to their expert by the Marlborough School of Mothercraft and should unhesitatingly place his peculiarly valuable services at the disposal of the Mother Country.