To Serve In Samoa
(N.Z. Brest Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 29. Volunteer Service Abroad has selected Miss Penelope Montgomerie, of Mangere, to go to Western Samoa as a volunteer nurse. She will leave on Saturday. Miss Montgomerie is a registered nurse and maternity nurse, holds a Plunket Society certificate and has had 18 months’ public health nursing experience. She will organise and train public health nurses to work in Samoan villages and will also train nurses at Apia Hospital. Miss Montgomerie will work with another volunteer, Dr. Margaret Neave, a pediatrician from Lower Hutt, who has held child health clinics in many isolated Samoan villages for the last 18 months. Miss Montgomerie’s posting will bring the number of V.S.A. volunteers in Western Samoa to 12.
Farmers, surveyors, secondary school teachers, a diesel mechanic and a marketing development officer are also wanted by V.S.A. for Western Samoa.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31178, 30 September 1966, Page 2
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