During the course of a lecture at Eastbourne, Dr. Truby King said that size was not an essential in the human “animal.” “If the moa had been as intelligent as the fantail,” said the doctor by way of illustration, “the former would still have* bees a. living fact in this Dominion.” The Japs. were a race of small people, bux they were wonderfully virile. If size w&* an essential for axiaompKishment, they the people of Patagonia and other countries where they are big would be leading tt-ft world, instead of being treated as back ward races. Health and intellectual growth combined were more necessary than size, and it was to further this purpose that the Karitane at had firet been formed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1921, Page 9
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