ITEMS FROM LONDON

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 13, 15 July 1918, Page 9

ITEMS FROM LONDON

News from The Post's London correspondent includes the following items (dated London, 17th May):— > • Dr. Agnes Bennett (Wellington), lias • lately arrived in England. She has been in the Dominion recuperating after an attack of malaria, which caused- her to be invalided, from Salonika. Dr. Bennett's plans for the immediate future are not yet quite settled. Nurse Ada I. Murray, formerly of Waipukurau Hospital, served for some time at the' New Zealand 'hospitals at Walton and Codford. She is now in Salonika. The following nurses have been taken [on the strength: Returned from duty to New Zealand, S.-Nurses L. H. Donald, H. Carruthers, A. L. Philpotts, J. M'Pherson; S.-Nurses 0. L. M'lntyre, W. Wilson, M. Hancock, R. Lindsay, J. Shaw, and, E. Douglass. The Hon. Angela Manners is matron of the Auxiliary Hospital, which her father, Lord Manners, has been running at his residence, Avon Tyrrell, Christchurch, as an auxiliary to No. 1 N.Z. General Hospital at Brockenhurst. Avon Tyrrell accommodates from 20 to 30 officers, and in the twenty months that it has been ' working nearly 300 Now Zealand' officers have been treated there. Miss Manners has been engaged on war work since 1914, and was captured by the Germans when they first overran Belgium, but escaped . later. New Zealand officers speak in high terms of the treatment at Avon Tyrrell, and Miss Manners herself says: "It has been' the greatest pleasure to u« to have them and do all we can for them, and it has given many English people a chance gl getting to 'know better our gallant brothers from the other side of the world and to love them."

Sister Emma C. Gill, who was trained at Auckland Hospital, gaining her certificate in- 1901, and lias spent eight years in Honolulu, is now in the Canadian Array Medical Corps, and is stationed at Basingstoke Hospital, but hopes shortly to get to France. Miss Gill first applied to the British Consiil in Honolulu to get to the front and.eventually came to Europe as an "Edith Cavell" nurse under the aegis of a wealthy American family in Honolulu. Staff-Nurse Utting is returning to NewZealand medically unfit. Miss Dora P. Harman (Chch.) is about to leave for Prance, having- signed on for twelve months' foreign service. She has been for nearly tlrree years at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. Sister N. Milne Hovey, N.Z.A.N.S., is at Brockenhurst, and is expected to leave for New Zealand shortly on transport duty. Sister Hovey was on duty in France for over a year, until attacked by trench fever. She has recently been staying at the N.Z. Sisters' Best Home, at Brighton. Bliss N. Gome (Auckland), who has been in England since the beginning of the, "war, is now secretary of the Red Cross Hospital at Henley-on-Thames.