INDUSTRIAL NURSE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 77, 11 January 1949, Page 2

INDUSTRIAL NURSE

APPOINTMENT AT .GENERAL POST OFFICE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 10. For the first time in the history of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department, an industrial nurse has been appointed to the General Post Office. She is Miss Blanche Helliwell, of Christchurch. Miss Helliwell, who is attached to the welfare branch of the Post Office in Wellington, took up her position to-day. Miss Helliwell, who was trained at the Christchurch Public Hospital, took her maternity training at the Wellington Public Hospital before the war. She spent two and a half years nursing in Australia during the war and was the New Zealand charge sister on the Netherlands hospital ship Oranje for three and a half years. She undertook Plpnket training in Dunedin and before taking up her latest appointment was relieving Plunket nurse in Christchurch. There are 3000 members on the staff at the General Post Office, including the staffs of workshops, stores, and garages, who will come under Miss Helliwell’s care. The clinic and two other rooms on the second floor of the General Post Office are to be for Miss Helliwell’s use.