CHRISTCHURCH CHURCH HOSPITAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3764, 4 May 1926, Page 18

CHRISTCHURCH CHURCH HOSPITAL.

THE NURSING SISTERHOOD. (Ibom Odr Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 10. At a meeting of the Associate Members of the Order of St. Elizabeth, which is to take charge of the Church Hospital in Christchurch, the mother superior of the Order spoke of the work of the St. George’s Association. Christchurch, she said, had already raised £15,000 out of the £35,000 required. Here, perhaps, they could not hope to raise another £25,000, but she would commend her friends to the St. George’s Associate and to the effort they were making to collect money in small amount. But they need not confine their attention to small amounts where they could ask for a larger sum. The Mother Superior gave an instance of a very poor woman in Sussex who had collected £1 in pennies. It seemed strange, she said, that there should be such interest among these poor people for an object in a country so far away, as New Zealand. There was undoubtedly an extraordinary interest to be frund among the people of Great Britain for this farthest-off dominion. If t’ y were to undertake the responsibility of providing the hospital sisters, who would be a third order of their confraternity, they would have to ensure that their training was of the best, since the standard of the nursing profession in New 'ZeaJand was second to none. If they were going to undertake the work they must do it well. They must not be less efficient because they were doing the work for their Lord and Master. The Mother Superior spoke after a lantern lecture given by Mr T. J. Pemberton. The lecturer dealt with New Zealand generally, but devoted special attention to the Canterbury province and its early history.