NURSES' CHRISTIAN UNION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 4

NURSES' CHRISTIAN UNION

RECEPTION ON SATURDAY

IN HONOUR OF LADY NEWALL

Her Excellency Lady Newall was entertained at a gathering given in her honour by the New Zealand Nurses' Christian Union on Saturday afternoon at the.Pioneer Club rooms, which were] charmingly decorated with flowers, j Her Excellency, who was accompanied by Miss Walton, was received by. Mrs. H. Bayldon Ewen (president of the union), Mrs. Tythe Brown (a former president), and Miss I. Lambie. 0.8. E. (director of the New Zealand Nursing Division), and presented with a bouquet of flowers by Nurse Harvey, of the Wellington Hospital. In welcoming her Excellency, Mrs. Ewen said that the object of the Nurses' Christian Union was the development of the spiritual side of a nurses' character which, in a time of national emergency such as the present; when nurses everywhere were offering their skill and service to help humanity, was of the utmost importance. COURAGE AND DEVOTION. Lady Newall, in reply, referred to) the Queen's recent broadcast and the tribute she had paid to nurses in England. All knew of the courage and devotion that had been shown by these j women, said Lady Newall. She de- j scribed something of the tremendous work that had been involved in the, evacuation from danger areas of patients in some of the great London hospitals. New hospitals had sprung! up in many places outside the danger! zone, the change-over of a building! from a private home into a hospital; being quickly effected. Many retired doctors and nurses had offered their services and were doing fine work at first-aid posts in London. She had met many nurses when visiting war hospitals in Britain, said her Excellency, and wherever she and Sir Cyril went in New Zealand they endeavoured to visit the hospitals and I were interested in meeting the nurses as well as the patients. Before tea was served Mrs. Wilfrid I Andrews sang a bracket of- songs, and j before leaving her Excellency met many of the guests.