HOSPITAL SHIP NURSES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16538, 11 November 1915, Page 6

HOSPITAL SHIP NURSES.

The services of two additional Gisborne nurses have been accepted for tho front— that of Sister Wcstoby, of tho Gisborne Hospital, and Sister Lewis, of Roetrevor Privato Hospital. Both sisters have been waiting many months to bo called up with the nursing reinforcements, and it is understood (says the Poverty Bay Herald) that they will leave by the second New Zealand hospital ship Marama. Sister Westoby has been over two years on the Gisborne Hospital staff, and has proved herself specially capable. Sister Lewis, who is also wellknown in Gisborne, and highly qualified, has been mainly engaged in private practice during her fivo- yeans' residence there. She was trained at Wanganui. and is at present on tho staff of Sister Wheeler's privato hospital. They will probably leave Gisborno next month.

Mr Hogg, an employee in tho Potono railway workshops, who has been advocating tho manufacture of steel helmets for " our boys" at the front, has been given permission to make samples and eubmit them to the military authorities (says the New Zealand Times). Mr 'Hogg is confident that he can produce a helmet at a low cost, provided the material is procurable, that may prove of benefit to the men in the trenohes. In a letter just received in Oamaru from a nurse at the New Zealand Hospital at Port Said, under date September 12, the following occurs:—"Book and papers arc fairly scarce here. A Red Cross lady has just been round, and given cigarettes and matehes, which are very acceptable. We hadn't any to give them (the soldiers) today. "