LATE SISTER MONSON
LINK WITH OTAGO PIONEERS
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
* DUNEDIN, This Day. An interesting sidelight of the earlyhistory of Otago is recalled by the death at Port Chalmers on Sunday of Sister Monson, who was one of the first New Zealand nurses to leave for service abroad during the South African War. She was a member of a very old Port Chalmers family, hemother, in company with other settlers being one of those who went down to the waterfront on. April 15, 1848, to witness the arrival of the Philip Laing, one of the ships that brought the pioneer settlers of Otago. On her return from the South African War Sister Monson and her colleague, Sister Ross (now wife of Dr. Noonan, of Eemuera, Auckland), were accorded a civic reception at Porti Chalmers and presented with inscribe^ gold medals. i Sister Monson was given a military funeral; the pall-bearers beirig members of the South African Veterans' Associa < tion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 141, 11 December 1935, Page 9
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