Commencement & Official Opening of Coburg City Band & Truby King RoomsPrint Page

The plaque commemorates the commencement of the building and the official opening of the Coburg City Band and Truby King Rooms in 1925 and 1926. The building was commenced on the 10th October 1925 and the official opening took place on the 24th July 1926. 

Mrs J. Robinson (Mayoress of Coburg) and the Advisory Board of the Coburg Truby King Centre have issued invitations for the official opening of the new Coburg Truby King Centre, at rear of City Hall, tomorrow afternoon, at 3. Lady Irvine will perform the ceremony, and afterwards, in the City Hall, crown the winners of the Truby King and Queen competition.
Brunswick and Coburg Leader (Vic.), 23 July 1926. 

Sir Frederic Truby King CMG(1858 – 1938), generally known as Truby King, was a New Zealand health reformer and Director of Child Welfare. He is best known as the founder of the Plunket Society. The Plunket Society was set up on 14 May 1907 to apply scientific principles to nutrition of babies, and strongly rooted in eugenics and patriotism, its 1917 "Save the Babies" Week had the slogan "The Race marches forward on the feet of Little Children." In Australia a number of maternal childhood centres in the 20's, 30's, and 40's were named after Truby King such as Coburg and Dandenong (both in Melbourne). One such centre, in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg is now a heritage listed building.

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