NEW ZEALANDERS IN SPAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23321, 13 October 1937, Page 14

NEW ZEALANDERS IN SPAIN

NURSES AT HUETE A HOSPITAL BASE (From Our Own Corresronuent) (By Air Mail) LONDON. Sept. <4B. The three New Zealand nursing sis-ters—-Miss R. Shadbolt (Auckland) Miss M Sharpies (Levin), and Miss I Dodds (Wellington), who reached Spain by way of London in July to assist in providing medical aid tor the Spanish Government forces, are now working at the English Hospital, Huete It is a large base hospital, and the staff is largely comprised oi English and Americans It receives numbers of English wounded, hence its name After the recent Brunete battle, in which only 43 Englishmen returned out of a battalion of 340. many of the survivors were sent there. When the nurses reached Spam and were on their way from Port Bou to Barcelona in an American car. one of the drivers lost his nerve, The wheel was taken by Nurse Sharpies, who drove with admirable skill, and the parly reached their destination.