PLUNKET NURSING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 30 October 1934, Page 9

PLUNKET NURSING

PRESENTATION TO MISS PATTRICK.

TRIBUTES TO SERVICES,

Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct, 29

Karitane and Plunket-trained nurses, representing not only Canterbury but also the whole of New Zealand, combined to give a welcome to Miss Pattrick, former Director of Plunket Nursing in New Zealand, at a party held in Christchurch in her honour. There was an attendance of nearly 100.

Miss Pattrick’s arrival was greeted with prolonged applause and sive was presented with a beautiful bouquet of roses and abutilons from the nurses of New Zealand. Greetings from Plunket Nurses’ Associations from almost every province in the Dominion were conveyed to Miss Pattrick by their appointed delegates. For the Plunket nurses of New Zealand, Miss C. Pascoe, of Nelson, presented Miss Pattrick with a quaint brass lamp as a “symbol of light with special significance in the nursing tradition, as a token of enlightened a.nd loving service to mankind.”

Not only in New Zealand, said Miss Pascoe, but all over the Empire, the inspiration of Miss Pattrick’s life and work had spread wonderful light. In. addition to the greetings personally conveyed*from the New Zealand associations, there were more than 80 letters, telegrams and cables, some from Canada, England and Australia, and a bouquet was presented from former New Zealand nurses now overseas.

Another presentation made _ was a black evening bag studded with brilliants and containing a cheque from the Plunket and Karitane -nurses in New Zealand and overseas.

The sub-matron of the Wellington Hospital, Miss Clark, spoke for the Karitane Hospital staffs in paying a. tribute to the remarkable work accomplished by Miss Pattrick. In her reply, Miss Pattrick said, after thanking the nurses for the wonderful tributes they had paid her, that she could wish her retirement from the work had been less confused, and no on© regretted that more than herself. However, the loyalty and understanding shown her by the workers in the nursing profession would always remain to counteract any feelings of disappointment in the future.