OVERSEAS NURSES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 6

OVERSEAS NURSES

TWO DUNEDIN ARRIVALS TO TRAIN AT TRUBY KING HOSPITAL “ While I was living in Athens I read all about the work of the late Sir Truby King and His hospitals, and I was naturally thrilled when the opportunity came for me to come to New Zealand,” exclaimed a young Greek nurse, Joanna Michalioupoulou, when seen by a Daily Times reporter at the Truby King Hospital at Anderson’s Bay on Thursday. Miss Michalioupoulou won the 1949 Florence Nightingale Scholarship for Nursing, which is awarded to an overseas nurse to work m the Dominion or to a New Zealand nurse to go to an overseas hospital. Miss Michalioupoulou had arrived at Auckland earlier in the week by the Wanganella, and came on immediately to Dunedin, where she is to remain for six months.

Miss Michalioupoulou, who speaks excellent English, explained that she found the language much more difficult than Italian, which she said she loved for its musical qualities. She lived in Athens throughout the German occupation, and had heard a great deal about New Zealand through the exploits of our troops in her country. The nurse trom Greece was then joined by another arrival frorfi “foreign parts,” Miss Norah Jones, who, in spite of her name, did not come from Wales, but from Malaya. She, too, came here through the aid of a scholarship, this one being provided by UNESCO. Miss Jones has at least the makings of an accomplished linguist as she can hold a conversation in several languages, including Eng ish, French, Malayan. Chinese and others.