A WISE PROVISION

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 2, 27 September 1939, Page 8

A WISE PROVISION

Under the auspices’of the North laranaki Voluntary Aid Detachment Service and with the ready co-operation of the I aranaki Hospital board 50 girls are to commence nursing training immediately. The intention is to recruit and train at the New Plymouth hospital for the V.A.D. Service 100 nurses for the staff of an emergency hospital and an additional 20 for district nursing. This is a wise provision, and also provides scope for young women anxious to engage in war service. There has 'been a serious shortage of trained nurses in recent years, and unless effective measures are put in hand to meet the position this is likely to become more acute, as many New Zealand nurses will be anxious, as was the case during the Great War, to go abroad on active service. Yet the local nursing service must be carried on, and it is satisfactory to see that measures for ensuring this are already in train.