NEW ZEALAND NURSES.
. 12u MORE TO BE ENROLLED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", this day. The Minister for Public Health, "who has charge of the Nursing Service, lias approved of the enrolment of 125 additional nurses for the New Zealand Army Nursing Corps. The total number enrolled will then be 344. This number will meludc a draft for the. New Zealand HoKpital at Walton-on-Thames, wihere only fully -qualified nurses will be taken. In a report to the Minister. Miss H. Mac Lean, officer in charge of the nurses, states that there are enough nurses now on the list to replace the ten nurses who were lost with the transport Marquette. There are now 219 nurses enrolled, including 0 reported missing after the sinking of the Marquette. Four arc in Samoa, 153 in Egypt, 12 with the Australian Forces in Egypt. 14 on the Mahcno, 20 on transport duty. 8 at, Trentham camp, 2 -at Wellington Hospital, 2 at Greytown, and A at Tauhcrcnikau, while 1 nurse is at Clifton Terrace Hospital. ~ I
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 24 November 1915, Page 8
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