Truby King Memorial Plunket Rooms, 66 Courtenay Street (1949-2013)

On 30 June 1949 a permit was issued for the construction of a building for the Plunket Society. The builders were Boon Bros. and the estimated cost was £6,878.

Thomas H. Bates originally designed a two-storey building in 1947. According to the minutes of the local Plunket branch these plans were unacceptable to Plunket headquarters. Bates then re-drew the plans so that a second storey could be added at a later date.

The new Plunket Rooms, named in honour of the late Sir Truby King, were finally opened on 24 July 1950 by Dr. C. Taylor, Director of Hospitals.

The building was demolished in July 2013 to provide car parking for the adjacent New World supermarket.

A signboard to mark the location was erected in late May 2014.

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Town Section 946, Taranaki Land Deed Index I1 Page 202 (Archives New Zealand)

Taranaki DP7047 Sheet 1 (1951), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ)

Plunket building to be replaced by new structure (Taranaki Daily News 19 May 1948)

Plunket Rooms may be ready in January (Taranaki Daily News 5 November 1949)

New Memorial Plunket House Officially Opened (Taranaki Daily News 25 July 1950)

New Plunket House Officially Opened (Taranaki Daily News 27 July 1950)

Family centre to close (Daily News 26 March 1996)

Staff Hope to Re-Open NP Plunket Centre (Daily News 27 April 1996)

Plunket sings sponsers' praises (Daily News 27 September 1996)

Plunket Has Historic Links to NP (Daily News 30 October 1996)

Car park plan for Plunket rooms site (Taranaki Daily News 30 November 2011)

Letter to Editor (Taranaki Daily News 5 December 2011)

Plunket puts future ahead of past (North Taranaki Midweek 14 March 2012)

'Pause and think' about buildings (North Taranaki Midweek 14 March 2012)

Rooms Haven't Been Given Heritage Status (North Taranaki Midweek 14 March 2012)

Out with the old, in with the New World (Taranaki Daily News 25 July 2013)