CALL FOR NURSES.
ONE HUNDRED MORE WANTED. WELLINGTON, October 22. Tho Prime Minister informed a reporter to-night that he had received a cablegram from the Imperial authorities asking if New Zealand could supply another 100 trained nurses for service in Egypt. Tho information placed before him was to the effect that the nurses could be supplied. Dr Valintine (Inspector-general of Hospitals) and Miss M‘Lean, who bad tho matter in hand, had stated that there would bo no difficulty in enrolling the nurses from among the volunteers already on the books. The Cabinet had decided, therefore, that 100 nurses should be sent. Mr Massey mentioned that probably the nurses would go as passengers in the hospital ships when they loft New Zealand. Tho Mararaa would bp leaving in December, and the Mahcno, which was making a trip hack to New Zealand, would be leaving Wellington again a little later. ,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 50
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148CALL FOR NURSES. Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 50
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