WOMEN HONOURED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 160, 8 June 1939, Page 13

WOMEN HONOURED.

BIRTHDAY DECORATIONS. I Several well-known women of New I Zealand are included in tlie list of birthday honours, their service to tlie Dominion covering a wide spread of .activities. The lollowing are biographical notes: MISS T. BUTLER, M.B.E. Long nursing service in the tropics Islands to tlie credit of Aliss T, Bmler, i "'ho retired in February medically unlit from tiie position of matron of the Aw arua Hospital, Rarotonga., and is I now in New Zealand. She trained for lier profession in tlie Christchurch Hospital, and did her midwifery course in Melbourne. Aliss Butler was in England on a private visit in 1914, and on tlie outbreak of war she offered her service’s to the Imperial authorities. They were immediately accepted, and she was one of tiie first nurses to serve in Belgium with the British Army, arriving there within three days of the outbreak of war. Later she transferred to the New Zealand Army Nursing Service, with which she served for tiie remainder of the war. After her return to New Zealand, she' nursed for b-'ef periods in the Tren-i tham and Pukcorn Hospitals. She went to Western Samoa in 1922, and; later nursed in Niue. She had been nvMron of the Rarotonga Hospital for about eight years up to tlie time of her retirement. AIISS Al WIT BLYTHE LAW, M.B.E. Unremitting attention to tlie interests of children who have passed through the school at the New Zealand i Institute for the Blind in Parnell has! distinguished the life of Aliss Alary Blythe Law. Slip recently retired from the position of headmistress ot the school after nearly -10 years’ service. AIISS BLANCHE K. CARNACHAN. M.B.E. Active interest in (lie improvement of conditions for women and children j has long been taken by Aliss B. E. G'ttrnnchan, Auckland. She was among

the first women justices of the peace, and was later appointed a special children's magistrate. Formerly a school teacher, Aliss Cnrnaihan became n member of manv Auckland organisations on tier retirement, taking special interest in those associated with tlie weßnrc of women and children. ATiss Carnachan was appointed by the Unemployment Board in 1931 as a member of a special committee to consider the question of unemployment among women. J. B. BABB, 0.8 E. Aliss J. B. Barr, who retired about a year ago from tlie posit'on of bendmis- ; tress of Tinviru Girls’ High School, is i now Bving in retirement, in AYellingI ton. Slip held her Tmaru appointment for IT years, and before going there 1 had been headmistress of Ton a Girls’ College in Hawke’s Bav and of New ! Plymouth Girls’ High School. She was | horn in Oamaru in IPSO end was educated at AYnitaki Girls’ High School I and at Otago University. Aliss Barr. | who lias had a distinguished educational career, took- an active part in i tlie work of relieving distress among I women in Timaru during the depres- ■ sion. j MOTH ER AtABV GOXZACA, 0.8. E. I A life of outstanding devot’on and ! service to tlie sick has been tiiat of the Bov. Mother Alary Gonzaga. Alothcr Superior of the Sisters of Morey at Hie Alater Miscrieordiae Hospital (Auckland), of which slip lias been executive head since she and throe other sisters established it at the beginning of the century. Alothcr Alary Gonzaga was horn in AtaiJhorough and entered tlie order as a young woman, working in a number of institutions fill in the late ’nineties i the sisters took temporary charge of j the Coromandel Public Hosnital, which had found difficulty in obtaining a nursing staff. In 1900 she and three associates arranged for tlie purchase of (lie property, on whip); tlie present AFiserieordine Hospital stands. Since then she has remained at the head of the institution, and it was after a visit by iier and the Bov. Mother Alary Agnes to the United States of America in 1930 she, in collaboration, with the city architect, worked out a design for a thoroughly modern hospital of To hods, which became, in 1936, the present hospital.