OBITUARY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11877, 23 February 1933, Page 4

OBITUARY

MISS EDITH MARY YATES

Deepest regret will be felt throughout. the district at the announcement of the death of Miss Edith Mary Yates, a very well-known member of the nursing profession, until a sudden illness .which had made her an invalid for the past three years.

The late Miss Yates was born in 1866 at Dharwar, in the Bombay Presidency, India, and was the youngest, daughter of the late Air and Mrs Jame s Etchells Yates, her father being closely connected with the wool-spinning industry of India. She and her two sisters were sent with their mother to England and were educated at Manchester and Edinburgh in turn. In ISSS, Airs Yates and her three daughters leftEngland for New Zealand by the s.s. Alararoa, a vessel which was chiefly notable for the fact that it was the first of the Union Company's line to

carry full electric lighting equipment. The late Miss Yates recalled as one of the most interesting impressions of her youth the arrival of the steamer at successive ports, blazing with light in honor of the enterprise of her owners. The vessel reached New Zealand on December 2, ISS-s', and Miss EcL ith Mary Yates shortly after arriving in the colony decided to take up the nursing profession.- She entered the Waikato Hospital - under Div G . G. Kenny, . and eventually headed the list of student nurses there in her final examinations. After being a charge nurse for some time, Miss Yates became matron of the Waikato Hospital but was prevailed upon by her sister. Miss Margaret Yates, to go to Sydney, where they took a course of maternity nursing at the Women s Hospital, Surrey Hills. On returning to New Zealand, the •sisters settled for four years in Rotorua. but the climate did not suit Miss Margaret. Yates, and they removed to Gisborne, establishing their nursing home in a dwelling adjacent to the site now occupied by the OperaHouse. Later they removed to a- larger building in Aberdeen road. This new venture soon became an established success, and it- was carried on until recent years, Miss Margaret Yates passing away in 1916- - and her sister continuing her duties. Three years ago. Miss Edith. May Yates was the victim of a seizure, wUSien almost completeljy iiacapacdtated her, though fortunately it’ left her with most of her faculties untouched Since then she has been an invalid, eared for by her one; surviving sister, Mrs Annie Baldwin. Harr risT- Within the last few days her eon- j dStion became progressively worse, death coming peacefully on Tuesday .evening. , • ... ■ , The interment took place at Tatuberu cemetery yesterday, the mourners including a special representation of the nursing profession. % ■ MR, J. S. EWART. (U V A hv Elec. Tel. Copyright) OTTAWA, Feb. 21. Mg .1. S. Ewart, the famous constitutional lawyer, and ardent Canadian nationalist, is. dead. His "Kingdom Papers” was largely instrumental for the Canadian demand for equal Empire partnership. :