MAORI NURSES.
A plea for efforts to be made to induce members of the native race to enter the nursing profession was made by Mr. J. K. Hornblow at Thursday’s meeting of the Hospital Board.
Boards, he stated, should do all ihey could to protect the health of :!ie Afnnri race, and one of the best mol hods by which this could be ensured was by the training of native girls as nurses who would go out among I heir own race. It was pleasing to note that, at the State examination in June, a native nurse in the employ of the board had been successful, while once another Maori girl at the hospital had headed the list for New Zealand.
The chairman ,-Sir James G. Wilson) supported Mr. Hornldow’s remarks and mentioned that many native girls had gone through the local hospital. The secretary (Air. A. J. Phillipps) reported that, among the ' rrnbatinners who would go in next month, was a Maori girl from Oban.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3830, 11 August 1928, Page 2
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