Canada's Debt To Sir Truby King
O continue the quiz published recently in The Listener, who are the four New Zealanders, nativeborn, who, excluding the present war, have made the biggest stir in other countries? The question is not really difficult. They are Ernest Rutherford, science; Katherine — literature; David Low, cartooning; and Sir Truby King, medicine. The four have won fame in quite different fields of activity, but if it were asked which had directly benefited, in a measurable way, the greatest number of human beings, the answer would be Truby King. Canada is one of the countries that owes a debt to Truby King. The other day they opened the headquarters of the Canadian Mothercraft Society in ‘Toronto, when Speakers acknowledged what Canada owed to him and to New
Zealand in the preservation of human life. Through the office of the New Zealand High Commissioner in Canada, the NBS has been sent recordings of this ceremony. They will go round the stations, First there is an address by the Rt. Rev. Stuart Parker, D.D., on mothercraft, and then Princess Alice, wife of the Governor-General of Canada, declares the headquarters open. Dr. Parker’s address will be broadcast from 2YA at 11.0 a.m.-on March 10, and Princess Alice’s remarks will be heard at the same hour on March 17. [The photograph above shows Princess Alice receiving flowers from Gwen Tefft, one of Canada’s first Mothercraft babies.]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 17
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