Nurses From Islands To Be Trained In N.Z.
(P.A;) NAPIER, April 5. In the past New Zealand had sent personnel to the Pacific Islands to teach people to look after their own health, but a further stage has now been reached and nurses from the islands were to be brought to New Zealand for training, said Miss M. I. Lambie, Director of Nursing, when addressing the annual conference of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association today. Miss Lambie added that some of these island girls were already in New Zealand. The Government had offered bursaries for nurses from Far Eastern countries to undertake postgraduate training in New Zealand. The first nurse to come under this scheme was a Malayan girl. Nurses from other countries who were receiving training in New Zealand included one Indian and several Chinese.
Miss Lambie advocated the formation of an international nursing group in the South Pacific and said that New Zealand should take the lead in its establishment.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22916, 7 April 1949, Page 6
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