NURSES IN EGYPT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 6

NURSES IN EGYPT.

WELL EARNED REST.

I (Press Assn) WELLINGTON, July 15. "The nurses work long hours in a [difficult climate and deserve the very best we can give them,'' states Lieut.Colonel F. Waite (Overseas Commissioner for the National Patriotic Fund Board) aftci detailing in a report to the board the arrangements made for New Zealand nurses on their ! return from Greece and Crete. A number of .nurses, says Colonel Waite, j needed quiet and rest. He tried to get them twenty at a. time into a good hotel, but every spare room in every hotel was occupied by refugees from Yugoslavia and Greece. Eventually it was decided to send the nurses to the Y.W.C.A. Hostel and give each one back from Crete ten days' board free. Most of the girls availed themselves of this.

j Colonel Waite also refers to the (financial assistance given to the British Y.W.C.A. towards the cost of reconditioning a houseboat on the Nile for the use of nurses, and of the arrangements when this work is completed for cabins on the houseboat to be made available to New Zealand nurses when required. He says he is sure this is the best way to nrovide for the nurses.

Colonel Waite also pays a tribute to the work of the Y.W.C.A. The service it renders, he says, is bevond praise and no work is more, efficiently done in Egypt than theirs.