HOSPITAL FUNCTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20968, 3 September 1931, Page 3

HOSPITAL FUNCTION.

TRIBUTESTO RETIRING NURSE

PRESENTATIONS MADE.

Many evidences of affection and warm esteem were shown at a farewoll party organised by the lady superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, Miss Nutsey, and the nursing staff of the Auckland Public Hospital, and held yesterday afternoon, for the assistant-lady superintendent, Miss M. Broun, who is retiring after 29 years of nursing life. The gathering was held in the sitting room at tho Nurses' Home and there was a very large number of members of the various staffs and of ex-trainees present. Moj,t beautiful golden daffodils and jonquils, Iceland poppies, primroses, violets and other spring flowers were arranged in the room, which has a magnificent view from its windows and from the verandah of the harbour and its many bays.

Miss Nutsey, the lady superintendant, and Miss Broun, who was presented with several charming posies, received the guests as they arrived, and later a very enjoyable programmo of entertainment was presented. Items were given by the nurses' orchestra, comprising Miss Clarkson, Nurse Stokes and Nurso Underwood; a sketch from "The Chimes" (Charles Dickens), by Nurses Davidson, B. Christian and D. Christian; a duo by Nurses Farland and Underwood, song, Nurse Zukerman; a violin solo, Nurse Woodall, with Nurso Farland as her accompanist, and an orchestral number by Nurses Brame, Stokes and Underwood.

Presentations were made to Miss Broun by Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, on behalf of tho different staffs of the hospital. From the nursing staff was given her a very handsome silver tea service with a waggon and travelling rug; from the office staff, a piece of Wcdgewood china, and from the domestic staff a leather circular hat box. Other individual gifts were also made to her before the afternoon ended.

In making the presentation, Mr. Wallace welcomed the ex-nurses and sisters who in the past had been connected with the hospital. Miss Broun, whom they were farcwelling, had started her nursing career at the hospital in 1902, and had obtained her certificate in 1905. With the exception of the time —1915-16—that she was away at the war as matron of the hospital ship Marama, she had been on the staff of the hospital until now. "I have no need to speak of her qualities," he said, "as you know them well." (Applause.) . Miss Broun made a charming little speech in reply, after which Dr. C. E. Maguire, superintendent of the hospital, spoke on behalf of the staffs, conveying their high regard for her and good wishes for her future. As one who had been associated with her for 20 years he spoke with'knowledge of her work. Reference was made to th© time of the influenza epidemic in 1918, when Miss Broun had taken charge of the Myers Kindergarten, where children whose parents had fallen victims of the epidemic were domiciled. She had worthily followed in the footsteps of that greatest nurse of all time, the "Lady with the Lamp. A keenly appreciative tribute was also paid by Mrs. C. E. Maguire as a personal friend. Delicious afternoon tea and the singing of "Auld Lang Syne brought to an end a very enjoyable occasion. Among those who were present in addition to those already mentioned were Misses Cussen, Sutherland, Tilly, Murphey, Bluett, Hart, Jenkins, Bourke, Toomey, Gott, McLean,- Simson, Manning, Deluger, Simpson, Speedy, Howard, Anderson, Henderson, Widdowson, Pottin ger, Wright, Kingsford, Jones, Mueller, Treweok, Brown, Jackson (2), Williamson, Cameron, Jones, Montgomery, Long, Mitchell, Leyland, Mrs. Hardie Neil, Mrs. Casement Aickin, Miss Mander, Miss Keys, Miss H. Sutherland, Mrs. Tracy Inglis, Miss Fry, Miss Lawrence, Mrs. McDonald, Mrs. Falconer, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. C. Gardner, Miss Edgerley, Miss Heap, Miss Elwood, Miss Gillander, Mrs. Sweet, Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Sheath, Mrs. Burns, Mrs. Rosa McKenzie, Mrs. Johnston, Mrs. Randrupp, Miss M. B. Bell, Mrs. Swares, Miss Wright, Miss Smart, Miss Walls, Miss Rudd, Miss W. Halley, Mr. H. Henderson, Mr. Lyle, Miss Cunningham, Mrs. Mirams, Miss E. Miller, Miss Kerry, Miss Stanley, Miss Atkinson, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Watson.