SCHOLARSHIPS FOR NURSES

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 March 1935, Page 5

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR NURSES

TWO AWARDS ANNOUNCED. NEW SYSTEM OF EXCHANGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 4. The Health Department states that Miss E. Kaa, a Maori nurse trained at Dunedin Hospital and at present sister of the maternity ward in the Rotorua Hospital, has been granted a scholarship by the Carnegie Foundation to take a year’s course at the Domestic Science School of the Otago University in practical arts and crafts with the object of conducting health education with Maori women’s institutes. The department also states that Miss E. Hughes, assistant matron at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, has been granted a Rockefeller Scholarship to take a. post-graduate course in hospital administration at Wellington. Under the new system of exchange by which nurses from New Zealand will spend six months at the women’s hospital in Melbourne and nurses from that hospital will work for the same period at obstetrical work in New Zealand, Miss M. Davies, Melbourne, has joined the staff of St. Helen’s Home, Wellington, and Sister Aileen Joyce, of St. Helen’s Hospital, Dunedin, has joined the staff of the women’s hospital ,Melbourne.