John Arnold_The Evening Post_, 7 Apr 1924:
WOMEN IN PRINT.
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The #Plunket Society is firing the imagination. Its work is being talked about everywhere. A Sydney man … took his passage by the Chinese steamer Ling Nam, a 6000 ton vessel that trades from Hong Kong to Brisbane, Sydney, and Wellington, and then goes on to Panama, afterwards to South America. On the voyage to Wellington he talked with a Chilian [sic] copper-mine manager, who was going back to Chili with his wife. This lady is a Chilian who does not speak English. The conversation one day centred on the Chilian’s baby, and the mine manager said that whilst in Sydney he had tried to get hold of a book by “a man named King” on the feeding and care of #babies, but did not succeed in finding a copy. The Sydney man replied that he thought he had that book, and he made a search for it amongst his luggage, but he could not discover it, and returned to the Chilian to say so, whereupon the Chilian said: “It’s quite all right; there’s a Bolivian lady on board who is returning to her husband, and she has King’s books, and is going to lend them to my wife.” Who can set limits to the fame of the Plunket Society, when Chilians and Bolivians on a Chinese boat are talking about it?https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240407.2.133
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WOMEN IN PRINT.
…
The #Plunket Society is firing the imagination. Its work is being talked about everywhere. A Sydney man … took his passage by the Chinese steamer Ling Nam, a 6000 ton vessel that trades from Hong Kong to Brisbane, Sydney, and Wellington, and then goes on to Panama, afterwards to South America. On the voyage to Wellington he talked with a Chilian [sic] copper-mine manager, who was going back to Chili with his wife. This lady is a Chilian who does not speak English. The conversation one day centred on the Chilian’s baby, and the mine manager said that whilst in Sydney he had tried to get hold of a book by “a man named King” on the feeding and care of #babies, but did not succeed in finding a copy. The Sydney man replied that he thought he had that book, and he made a search for it amongst his luggage, but he could not discover it, and returned to the Chilian to say so, whereupon the Chilian said: “It’s quite all right; there’s a Bolivian lady on board who is returning to her husband, and she has King’s books, and is going to lend them to my wife.” Who can set limits to the fame of the Plunket Society, when Chilians and Bolivians on a Chinese boat are talking about it?https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240407.2.133
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Infants #ChildCare #TrubyKing
