TRAINING MAORI GIRLS AS NURSES.
(Per Hotted Press Association.) .AUCKLAND, February 12. The question of admitting Maori girls as day pupil nurses io thn Auckland Hospital came before the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to-day. The Secretary for Education wrote thanking the board for its approval of tho proposal for training Maori girls as nurses. Ho asked if it. would not be possible for the board to accept at onco one of the girls who had actually served in the Napier I-losiptal for a year as a day pupil.. Further, if Auckland Board saw no objection, tlio department, would nsk.it to accept a girl from Queen Victoria School as a day pupil, in the hope that a vacancy as probationer might bo found for her at Auckland on some ofher hospital at the expiration of her first year. The chairman moved that tlio matter be referred to the hospital stad, with power to act. The board had approved of the principle regarding Maori girls. He thought; the hospital would bo able to meet, the wishes of the department. This was agreed to.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13516, 13 February 1906, Page 5
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