Memorial to our Nurses who have died at the Front
Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume IX, Issue 3, July 1916, Page 153
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Memorial to our Nurses who have died at the Front
A correspondent writes that among the many proposals m connection with the above the scheme proposed by the Hon. Minister of Public Health, m speaking at Dunedin Hospital, to establish a Rest Home for nurses returned from active service, "would not be so useful to them owing to distance from the homes and friends of many, as a Benevolent Fund, from which donations could be made for nurses who could receive the benefit while living amorug their own friends. In our last issue we alluded to a fund Avhich was being collected by Misses Kitto and Bishop, of Greymouth, and we have great pleasure m announcing that the nurses of the West Coast and their friends sent to the editor the generous sum of £100. Our correspondent from Qtago would like tho opinion of the nursing profession as to the form the memorial should take, so that she can bring it before the Otago Branch of the Association, and thus be preparing
to have ready a sufficient sum to do whatever is decided when the war is over. At the present time there is no need to touch the sum already m our possession. Such nurses as have been sent back invalided are either retained on sick leave and receive full pay or are discharged and pensioned, if they apply for pension. We do not know whether the nurses of the Queen Alexandra Imperial Nursing Service Reserve are under such good conditions, and it may be that those New Zealand nurses who have gone at their own expense to offer their services may need more than the nurses of the N.Z.A.N.S. Those nurses, certainly, who have been working under the French Flag Nursing Corps have been practically giving their services freely for their pay barely covers necessary expenses, and there is no pension attached. Many of these have had exteremely strenuous work and will need a prolonged rest when they return.
