CONVALESCENT HOME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8204, 29 July 1915, Page 6

CONVALESCENT HOME.

WELLINGTON,- July 28

Some account of the convalescent home for New Zealand soldiers, organised by Lady Godloy in Egypt, is given by Colonel Esson, A.Q.-M.G., in a. letter to the Defence Minister. "The New Zealand convalescent home, under the management of Lady Godley, is a splendid little institution," he writes, " and Lady Godley, with a small staff, is doing great work in completing the euro of men discharged from hospital who require rest and building up before they take the field again. The. home, which has accommodatiqn for 30 patients, is established in a large and well-appointed building on the seaside, in one of the coolest and best of Alexandria subiirbs. It has been very comfortably fitted up, and those who have been fortunate enough to be sent there very much appreciate their quarters and treatment. The owner of a large residence adjoining the home has most"-generously placed it' at Lady Godley's disposal for the use of sick and wounded New Zealand soldiers, and owing to the receipt of a large parcel of bedding, etc., from tho Now Zealand •War Contingent Association in England and donations in' cash and kind from other sources, it will be possiblo to practically double tho capacity of the present New Zealand convalescent home with little, if any, additional cost to the Government.

"Those homes are most necessary, as at this time of the year life in Egypt under canvas or outside a stone building is almost impossible. Yesterday even in Alexandria it was 109deg in the shade, and the sick in the convalescent camps suffered a good deal. Ever since her arrival in Egypt, Lady Godley has taken a very keen and sympathetic interest in our sick, and has never spared herself when working on their behalf. I have not met a more businesslike member of the fail 1 sex. nor one in whom the faculty of management was so highly developed. Good discipline in maintained in the home, and it is evident that the management of the institution is dictated by the head as well as by the heart.

"The home is an immense success, an'absolute necessity, and New Zealanders have much reason to be grateful to their General's good lady for what she has undertaken to do on behalf of their boys instead of leaving for England or some cooler place, which 'is the course invariably followed during the. summer by all who can possibly get away."