VOLUNTEER SISTERHOOD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13816, 16 October 1915, Page 4

VOLUNTEER SISTERHOOD.

ANOTHER jBEPRES^'TATj: VIi FROM GISBORNE. •■• ■ ■•••■'■• — yfe'-'v..-, '(..- ■.■■ Gisbbrne will be reprefeentea, by no lpss. than three sisters,, each holding iuipoilaJit posts, in the ; pafty. >vhjuh;.iß,Wviflg Wellington, next week, ppeeefli^'ig^to £tiefrout under the auspices. -<>t th^'JJfpjy.: iS^alanxl . Volunteer -Sisterhood, organised by i£iss Rout. Mention has jili'eady been m^de of tho fact that LUe party is proceeding under Sisters Kerr arid Craig, of the. Gisboine, Hospital staff. A third volunteer h&s sinec conje forward- in the . persou . of . Miss - Marion Higge^Sv domestic , science . mistress- at jtheuUTsborne': Technical School, p- Miss Higgeflßj who had vjplunteeved her sei'vicu' aa> instructress in. connection M'ith th&; sisterhood, had intended iprpviding her' o>vn passage : money to Egypt. Tho matter came before: the. Poverty. JJay branch of the' Teachers' Instjtuto, witli the result that the members p£ the teachuig -profession of the district, am.odgst whom Miss. Higgens. is held w high esteem, have generously^ come 'forward and subsenbed £100 fb|\ passage nibney and equipnient. Tlie donations form the subject pf the following letter to; Mass Higgene from Mr F. C. Faram, prosiderit of the local braiiQh of the Institvite : . "Upon ■. receipt 'of 'the information that ypu had volunteered your seiH-ices for "trie noble work, ol, nursing our wounded soldiers at tlife' 1 front; tho teachers of Poverty Bay decided that they would bear the cost of your passage and equipment, arid yesterday the sum of £100 was paid into the public account for that pui'pose. Knowing tho sacrifice that you have made for such a noble cause it is hard to express in words our appreciation of your action,

IT, ' ; » ,O ft V •,'/'«, v'« ... , . ... .ab»ut to... undertake,, will be done with that-.thoroughnefiV^that has. characterised ybiir work as a 'teacher among us. >,Furtlier/. ■vve^air hopeVthat wlien^ the war is oferyoii will return 1 * to iis^and take up tile'- position Hvhich* you, have Vgiven up to-be a tmuiisteriiig .angel ito'j the!- sick and ;. wounded'; in < the • greatest war that has -'yet* visited universe." ' vMiss^Jli^ens, 'who' hasi been instructress . in/copkpry and dressmaking -at't the Technical r for ■; some ; years :<p,ast, leave 'for Wellington '.by, to-morrow's steamer in company -v with \-Ssster "Kerr. Tlieir^ ntuneroa^^riends' will join '' in Wishing them. •'lroh voyage" and - every success,' in their grea!t:- mission the v 'NeV Zealand wounded at the front.