TRAINING FOR NURSES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 5 February 1927, Page 2

TRAINING FOR NURSES.

INSTRUCTORS NEEDED.

REQUEST TO MINISTER.

[THE FBZSS Special ttztiu.] DUNEDIN, February 4. The question of securing a higher course of training for New Zealand nurses was brought up again to-day, when a deputation from the Trained Nurseo' Association waited on (tho Hon. Mr Young. Mr H. L. Tapley, M.IV, and Mr JM. Dickson, M.l\, introduced the deputation and spoke of the need for the provision of better facilities for training nurses than existed at hospitals. Miss Young (president of the Association) said tiiat four large hospitals' in New Zealand were experiencing great difficulty in securing tutorial nurses, because their nurses considered they had not received adequate training. She did not think it was right that all the plums should go to English nurses when there were nurses in New Zealand capable of doing the work if they had proper training, and to get the best type of training a university course was necessary. Miss Tennant, 'vice-president. 6aid that the probationers at hospitals gave fine service, but they did not get sufficient training, and were poorly paid. Thoy should have tutors at the hospital to train nurses. The teaching of nurses was the function of the Health Department. A university course would fill the bill. Tho Hon. Mr Oohen, M.L.C., also stressed the need of greater consideration being given to New Zealand nurses. Tho Hon. Mr Young said he was in sympathy with the scheme. He pointed out, however, that there was overlapping in the matter. As a result of representations made to the Health Department, Miss Mooru and Miss Lambio had been sent abroad to make a studv of conditions in Canada and England. Otngo University had boen rcsimnsible for this step, and when the ladies returned it was thought that thoy should be available for tho university, but that institution had no money to pay salaries and expected the Department to do that. Miss Moore had accordingly been retained by the Department and was available for Hospital Boards all over New Zealand. Regarding the university proposal, it must be understood that it was not customary to accept students who had not matriculated, and that was a difficulty that might causo these proposals to bo not a benefit but quito another thing to tho profession. Miss Tennent said that all they asked for wjis a few well-equipped women, who would act as teachers.

Mr Young said there would not bo a very large field in New Zealand for this education. The hospitals should have tutor sisters all right, and ha had tried to bring that about, but there hod been an impasse with the medical school authorities here in Diyiedin. Still ho could say that what they wanted would come about, probably in the nea/ future, but perhaps not in T>unedin. ROMANTIC MATCH. NOBLEMAN MARRIES ACTRESS. (ar cajls—rates aiioeutioK—coftbiqbt.) (ATJSTBAUUT AR> K.Z. CiBLB ISSOCUTIOK.) . LONDON, February 3Sylvia Hawkes, a pretty es-manno-quin and musical comedy actress, 22 years of age, was married to Lord Ashley, heir to Earl Shaftesbury, under romantic circumstances.

The likelihood of a marriage was rumoured for a week, but the Earl and the Countess persistently denied the possibility, while tliu bride's friends were equally confident that the marriage would take place. Events proved that the actress was right, and she was duly married at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, in a wedding dress hastily prepared at twenty-four hours' notice.

The crowded congregation, attracted by newspaper publicity, included a number of stago stars and mannequin friends of the bride. The honeymoon will be spent at Biarritz. ATTEMPT TO STOP MARRIAGE. (AosraiLUif iir» t.z. cable issocunoir.) (Received February 4th, 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 4. The Countess of Shaftesbury in a desperate laßt hour effort to stop the marriage of her son to Miss Hawkes left the family seal; in Dorset at daybreak by motor for London, where she arrived just in time to seo Miss Hawkes leaving for the church. The Countess did not attend tho wedding. TO SUE FOR DIVORCE. (bt cable—press association—coptbioht.) (AUSTRALIA!? AKD X.z. CABLE ASBOCIATIOIt.) NEW YORK, February 3. Mrs Ormiston has arrived in San Francisco from Australia, en route to Los Angeles, to sue her husband for divorce. She refused to tell the interviewers whether she would charge her husband with desertion or name Aimee McPherson as co-respondent until she had consulted a lawyer.