N.Z. NURSES FOR UNRRA
Assignment In Europe
The first New Zealand nurses to be attached to UNRRA, Misses Alice Reid, Melba McKenzie, and Nellie Barnett, have arrived iu Sydney by flying-boat from Auckland on their way to London for an assignment in Europe. They hud only 48 hours’ notice to leave. An arts graduate of Auckland University College, Miss Reid has been a tutor sisber at the Auckland Hospital for the last six years. She is a gold medallist, having topped the list in the State examinations in 1941. .In addition she has trained as a Plunket Society nurse. Senior Plunket nurse in Hamilton for the last three years, Miss Barnett is also n triple-certificated nurse. Miss McKenzie has been for the last seven years attached to the New Zealand Department of Public Health, first in Napier and later in Te Awamutu, where she worked among the .schoolchildren und the Maori population.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 258, 28 July 1945, Page 9
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