EXAMINATIONS FOR NURSES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25092, 25 January 1947, Page 2

EXAMINATIONS FOR NURSES

RESULTS OF STATE FINAL SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES (P.A.i WELLINGTON, January 24. The Nurses' and Midwives’ Board has announced that the following is a list of candidates who obtained passes or partial passes in the recent State final examination for pupil nurses. The names are shown under the centres at which candidates sat the examination, but are not shown in order of merit. Abbreviations used are:—H.S., honours in surgical nursing: H.N., honours in nursing technique: H.M., honours in medical; H.D.. honours’ in dietetics Ashburton Anderson, Betty Park: Early, Margaret; Dell, Molly Frances- Gillon, Iris (H.N., H.D.). Balclutha Passes.—Cavanagh, Mary Margaret; Simmers, Annie Elizabeth: Skinner. Teresa Mary. Partial Passes.—Hurnng, Mary Patricia; McPherson. Daphne Joan; O’Connell. Bridget; Watt. Annie Mac Kay. Blenheim Passes.—Coote, Edith Jane; Gardner, Patricia Elizabeth; tlay, Isabel Mary; Pearce, Irene Grace Murray. Partial Passes.—Callanan, Airlie Elizabeth: Fischer, Doreen Phyllis; Loe, Nancy; Taylor. Margaret Isabel. Christchurch Barker, Sylvia Helen; Bo water, Eila Grace; Campbell, Helen; Clarkson, Marjorie Noeline; Copeland, Patricia Elizabeth (H.N.); Croy. Elspeth Janet Reid; Davie. Annette Margaret; Denton, Margaret Catherine; Early, Rosetta Phyllis; Foden, Margaret June; Gardiner, Jocelyn Yvonne; Gemmell, Colleen Agnes; Gillingham, Mary Ferguson; Grooms, Margaret Jeanne; Henning, Mary Dorothy; King, Islah Correen (H.N., H.D.); Lamplough, Pauline Teresa; Lee, Kathleen Shirley Page; McNish, Audrey Vivienne; Mitchell, Loma Winifred; Mitchell, Shirley Rayner (H.S.. H.N., H.D.); Norman, Anne Victoria: Paterson, Colleen Dawn; Richards, Claire Adelaide; Roberts, Muriel Merle (H.D.); Saunders, Jenny Anne; Thomson. Alison Mary; Traill, Marjorie Edith; Trustrum, Amy; Tweedy, Hilda Betty Ashton (H.N.); Wilson, Nancy Isobel; Wood. Jeanette Patience.

Dunedin Bevis, Moyra Ellen Theresa; Blackie, Joan; Burnett, Jessamine; Clark, Grace Knox: Ferguson. Sheila MacCrostie; Fortune, Marjorie Helen; Herlihy, Frances Mary; Hide, Natalie Maureen; Kilpatrick. Joan Elsie (H.N.); Little, Cathareen Agnes (H.D.); McDowall. Eva Cooper; McLeod, Jean McCaskill; Nightingale, Noeline Grace; Stanton, Olive Miriam: Stewart, Janet Margaret Elizabeth; Taverner, Lorna Margaret; Vickers, Florence Rhoda; Walker, Dorothy Marion; Whitwell, Elsie Margaret; Wood, Norma Shirley. Greymouth Passes.—Coll. Mary Josephine; Johnson, Juanita Margaret: McMaster. Elvina Joyce (H.N.). Partial Passes.—Doolan. Frances; Parfitt, Maisie Hocking (H.N.); Skipper. Beilah Te Rauhine. Hokitika Passes.—Dimmick, Elma Jean; Doak, Aquinas Anne; Potter, Ona Maud; Rice. Patricia Baird. Partial Passes.—King, Vonda Gertrude; Preen. Phyllis Lilian. Invercargill Byars, Mary (H.N.); Clarke, Annie Calder; Creighton, Violet Margaret; Fotheringham, Ethel May; Groves, Sylvia Ellen; Hall, Constance Ellen (H.N.); Pearton, Grace Louisa; Power, Patricia Mary; Shregold, Gwendoline Prudence; Small, Elizabeth Imelda: Walter, Pearl Alma Muriel. Oamaru Passes. —Arker, Ethel Mary; ® usl ?' Mona: Hewlett, Isabel Georgina; Hunt, Dorothy Grace (H.N.); MacDougall, Mary; Tempero, Doreen. Partial Pass.—Barber, Phyllis Lorraine. Timaru Passes.—Bachop, Elaine Winifred; Butland, Brenda May; Ferrier, Natalie Joan, McGrath, Geraldine Mary; Scott, Mary Elizabeth; Simpson, Annie Armstrong, Stewart, Phyllis Margaret (H.N.); WillipTr?Ul pttS-O-Nem. Kathleen Denise. Westport Gubb, Joyce Kathleen. UNIVERSITY WOMEN IN CONFERENCE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS

The seventh Dominion conference of the New Zealand Federation of University Women —the first full conference to be held for about eight years —opened in Christchurch yesterday morning. Delegates assembled at the staff room in the Students’ Union Building, Canterbury College, and after the official welcome a business meeting was held. Because of the absence of the Dominion president (Miss I F Milnes), on account of illness. Miss J. Stewart, vice-president, presided at the morning and evening sessions and Mrs W. H. Cocker (an other vice-president) at the afternoon session. In her annual report, presented at the afternoon session, Miss Milnes wrote: “It seems to me that the university women’s bounden duty is to achieve a more active participation in the government of our country. Democracy is hanging in the balance. It can only work in a community that desires it and is prepared to make it work Here, we' as university women, should surely be able to contribute much more than we are doing. Ostrich-like Attitude “Up to the present, it has not been the policy of the federation to take any part in public affairs as such. We are too afraid of being drawn into party politics to allow ourselves to take any interest or part in measures which are to have the utmost effect on the lives of women.

“Other Federation of University Women show a more courageous, and less ostrich-like, attitude. The South African federation takes the keenest interest in Parliamentary affairs, and I have been much impressed by the reports of the British Parliamentary and Public Relations Committee.” Miss Milnes quoted from a letter received recently from the chairwoman of this committee in London, in which the writer says that the fear of being involved in party politics does not affect the committee’s action in England. The committee deals with questions that relate to the claim of women for complete equality, and with matters in which women demand a stronger voice for the national good. In those aims, she writes, women are united, whatever the political party to which they as individuals might belong. Forty-hour Week Miss Milnes considers that there is plenty of scope for such work in New Zealand with so much legislation and lack of legislation directly affecting the lives of women. “We all know.” she continues, “how much women’s burden has been increased by the introduction of the 40hour week, and practically every benevolent alteration in labour conditions of late years has created new difficultie. for the average New Zealand mother.” She deplores the lack of any scheme to deal with urgent social problems, and urges the federation to strive for improved conditions for mothers and housekeepers such as are provided for male workers organised under powerful industrial organisations She exhorts university women to play their due parts in making contributions of value to the community and in promoting understanding and friendship between the oeople of all nations Telegrams to Greece.— Advice has been received by the Chief Postmaster (Mr D. R. Thomson) that private commercial telegrams to Greece are at present subject to heavy delay.