CRETAN NURSE VISITS N.Z.

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26856, 8 October 1952, Page 2

CRETAN NURSE VISITS N.Z.

AIDED DOMINION TROOPS DURING WAR Miss Esther Torakis, who during the German occupation of Crete . aided many of the Dominion’s soldiers hiding in the hills and caves of her country, has arrived in New Zealand to visit her sister, who married one of the soldiers. Miss Torakis was training to be a nurse when the Second World War began She passed her examinations a 2- d • < ?H nn S the occupation was officially a nurse in her village of bclavopoula, where her uncle was a doctor. But unofficially—when the Germans were not ab^ut—she was helping New Zealanders. Her sister, Katina, married Corporal Edward Nathan, of the Maori Battalion, in 1945. He is now a farmer at Waimamaku. One of the first things T? 1 ?£ I sjy ants to do is to milk a cow. Until this week she had never seen a cow, and had never tasted cow’s milk.