MENTAL NURSES
PARTY FROM BRITAIN (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 7. “They are a very fine lot, indeed, ’ said the director-general of mental hospitals, Dr. R. G. Gray, after meeting on the Rangitiki 36 nurses from Great Britain who have been allotted to mental hospitals in New Zealand, being the third group under the recruiting scheme commenced recently. Three of them will go to Avondale Hospital, 12 to Porirua, nine to Sunnyside, and 12 to Seacliff. Dr. Gray deplored the need for such a plan, recruiting from overseas, which he considered the result of ignorance of the young women in New Zealand of the conditions and requirements of .the work. He mentioned that his own daughter, after three years’ training, had now qualified for her State final examinations in mental nursing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22199, 9 December 1946, Page 4
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