Helen Brew describes Bevan-Brown as having "a quality of innocent bewilderment" at the amount of resistance to so many obviously healthy, sane and reasonable things he advocated.Brew, Helen, Maurice Bevan-Brown: a tribute, Parents' Centre Bulletin, No.31, May 1967, pp. 13 She said Sir Truby King came to Christchurch to ask Bevan-Brown to take over the Plunket Society.Brew, loc. cit. Linda Bryder comments that King had no authority to make such an offer and the council would probably not have agreed because Bevan-Brown had resigned from the NZBMA, and his role would have cut Plunket Society off from the medical establishment.Bryder, op cit. p. 119 Sue Kedgely calls the offer ironic, and if Bevan-Brown had taken over, the Plunket Society "would undoubtedly have taken a very different course".Kedgely, op. cit., p 170 [King died in 1938.]
