Veteran Nurse Passes

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 5

Veteran Nurse Passes

A well-known member of the older generation of Auckland nurses, Miss Frances Louisa Noake, of Akiraho Street, Mount Eden, has died, in her seventy-second year. Miss Noake was the eldest daughter of the late Colonel Maillard Noake, a Crimean veteran who arrived in New Zealand in 1863 and performed notable service with the dblouial forces against the Maoris in the Wanganui and South Taranaki districts, till their pacification was completed. Miss Noake received her training as a nurse in Tasmania. Miss Noake and her surviving sister, Miss Mabel Noake, were the last remaining members of a family with a remarkable military and naval record extending back to the Elizabethan period, and even earlier. Both were led to enter the nursing profession largely by reverence for the memory of Florence Nightingale, whoso intervention had saved their father the loss of a leg from a severe wound received at Balaclava. Miss Noake was an enthusiastic member of the Auckland branch of'tho Navy League, and carried out much patriotic work in the last war and till a few months before her death. Medieval Rings. Peter the Hermit, who led the First Crusade, is. credited with introducing decade rings, an interesting fashion of the Middle Ages. These rings had ten projections on their outer side, nino kuobs, each of which represented an Ave, and the tenth a large symbol, usually a Crucifix. These rings were very large and cumbersome, so it was supposed that this discomfort supplied a useful form of penance in the wearing of them.