CURRENT NOTES

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25995, 24 December 1949, Page 2

CURRENT NOTES

To hon’our Miss M. I. Lambie. 0.8. E., Director of Nursing, who has been with the Department of Health for more than 30 years, officers and staff of the department gat’ ered on Thursday to bid her good-bye and wish her well in her retirement. Miss Lambie has held her post since April, 1931. She joined the department in 1918. Dr. T. R. Ritchie, Direc-tor-General of Health, in paying a tribute to Miss Lambie, said: “I think she knows the 5000 practising nurses in New Zealand. Not only does she know them, but she knows all about them.” Miss Lambie was presented with a beechwood writing desk and many other gifts.

Miss Marjorie Hill, who for the last * r £ e ea F s has been a member of the staff of the Cnristchurch Press Comply- has resigned from her post to become woman patrol officer for the Automobile Association, Canterbury. Last evening she was entertained at a farewell party and presented with parting gifts. The editor (Mr P. H. N Freeth), the lady editor (Miss M. . inght), and a senior member of the reporting staff (Mr E. C. Powell) spoke appreciatively of Miss Hill’s co-opera-ticn with the staff, and wished her well in her new position.

Seeing Princess Elizabeth buying toys for Prince Charles was a London highlight for a Wellington girl Miss Moya Little, daughter of Mr and Mrs Guy Little, The Terrace. Wellington. When visiting the Christmas show at Harrods. Miss Little saw the Princess who was chatting with animation to those about her.

® e * ty a tutor sister at dominion Training School for DenJ al w*w Ses + ’ Wellington, has returned to Wellington after two years’ leave of rnDcn Y£ lch o She spent in China with Bagge was on the staff of die West China Union University, in Chengtu, Szechwan Province. She n^t?? e^ f n thr ® e foreigners out of ie A«SiV ege s # 22 staff lhe dental profession is very popu!^ou amon j Chinese women, and they make good dentists,” Miss Bagge said. i We s e 40 students in the dental faculty last year, and 25 of them were women. Almost half of the final year students were women, and the same was true of the medical school.”

The lady editor ef “The Press” gratefully acknowledges and heartily th? P r’b C^ t f S u Christmas greetings from the Christchurch branch of the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearts™ Mi - ss L ’ Cameron (secreRr£v^ e !? n ™ an Miss ion), and the Brooklands Women’s Institute. night the lady editor of “The an e l^« M received two d °nations from an anonymous reader. One has been forwarded to Mrs G. H. Watte for the other? S° me P< s Memoria l. and the other to Miss M. G. Havelaar for th® in Greece - The lady ediuor reciprocates the kind wishes expressed by the donor.

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