VETERAN MINISTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18198, 18 September 1922, Page 8

VETERAN MINISTER.

GIFT OF CHEQUE FOR £370. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DANNEVIBKE. Saturday. Rev. Alexander Grant, who has been a member of the Hawke's Bay Presbytery for the past 40 years, recently resigned from tho charge of Knox Presbyterian Church, Dannevirke, where he had been stationed for 22 years. On Saturday he was the recipient of a cheque for ±1370, being a free will offering of his congregation and Presbyterians in Southern Hawke's Bay, and friends, as a token of their love and appreciation of his past ministration

NURSES FROM OVERSEAS..

LIMITED EMPLOYMENT.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL REPORIEE.] WELLINGTON. Saturday.

It is stated in the Health Department's, report that 76 nurses from overseas have been registered, their certificates from their training schools still being accepted as the State registers of England, Wales,' Scotland and Ireland have not yet been published. In future it will be advisable to require from all applicants from connI tries where a nurse registration law is ia ; force proof that they have been registered in the country from which they come. The need of reciprocity in registration throughout the Bntish Empire is very apparent, proceeds the report. A great number of letters from nurses desiring to come out to New Zealand have been received. These women in many instances appear to be well qualified and the majority, hare serred during the war, some with distinction, but the state of nursing affairs during the past year has not been such that they could be encouraged to come out. They have therefore been advised not to come unless they have friends or means which will permit them to wait for suitable employment. Despite this many have coma as well as many others who have not written beforehand to make inquiries. | Nurses from the Australian States have also come to the Dominion seeking work, and in spite of the fact that a good manj' of our own nurses are now working temporarily in England, South Africa and America, there are many private nurses in ill centres who have to await cases for considerable periods. People are more and more going to the general hospitals for treatment, and if nursed at their own homes dispense with their nurses at much .earlier periods than formerly. There are ! few positions now vacant in public hospij tals which cannot be filled by the trainees as they qualify.