DUNEDIN NURSES FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2397, 8 February 1900, Page 29

DUNEDIN NURSES FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

Knowing the anxiety in the hearts of those nurses who have volunteered from here, some ladies waited on the Premier on Friday evening and asked him to be kind enough to explain the exact way in which the nurses had been sent from other places. Mr Seddon received them very courteously, and gave them full details. He said it was not the intention of the Government to send any nurses, but that the Imperial Government were now oceepting th© services of nurses under the following conditions : — They must be sent by a committee who collect funds to pay for their passages, outfit, and salary while on service. When enough money has been found for six at least (cabling being too expensive to do so for any less number), Mr Seddon offers their services to the Imperial Government, and if they are accepted they sail at once for South Africa. The Ambulance Associations at Home are sending many of them in this way, and the Christchurch and Wellington people are now doing the tame thing. The nurses must be hospital-trained or ambulance nurses, and pass a medical examination before being accepted for service. Mr Seddon said, further, that it was not necessary that the six should come from one place; it did not matter where they came from as long as the number was complete. There are move than that number ready and willing to go from Dunedin alone ; in fact, Mr Seddon said he had received applications from at least 50 altogether. We feel sure that the people here will not be behind their Christchurch neighbours, who have already despatched their first half-dozen, and are rapidly getting another in readiness. The Patriotic Committee have only to call their ladies and subcommittee together, add to the number a few more to make it a thoroughly representative one, and in a very few days the matter could be arranged. Wellington is preparing as nuickly as possible, and Otago, after all she has already done, and is so willingly preparing to do in the matter of the fourth contingent, will surely not be left behind.

KILLED AT SPION KOP. WELLINGTON, February 3. The Hon. Hill Trevor, assistant private secretary to the Governor, has received a cable from the War Office stating that his younger brother was killed in the fight at Spion Kop.