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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14284, 28 April 1917, Page 4

- y _. ...... .. . .- .'-,-if* ' A lieatty tribute ,to the 'services '- reiv? deied 'by- ttfew. /Zealand > nurses during the war- period --wa*!- paid, by the- Hon. G. Vf. "Russell -at Auckland. Whet-eyer "New iZea;liwid nui_e» had. gone on war service they had >ron highest, .praise, whij|e those- who psA' not been-' so fortunate .as to get to <th> front, biit- had to '■*- stay m the dominion , hospitaJs, had done" equally noble* work m attending to the- needs of the , civil- . popula-tion.; r _W matter of coinmertM>ratin«; m suit* ableinr^nherVthe services of -tliese; nursed z\iovti&- be . considered % *l*he people- of Aq<sl3and. • In .England this^was b^ntf done- by the7 esUbU-hment- o£ the- J-dith eiV^ilV NaiiW • Homes, •,; a .movement which! 'it <was hopedWHild be followed throudiout Vthe: "fimpire'./ 'A fund -liad already 1 been established -m other-' -parts of New TZealand to c-ommembrateija l-suit-able ' manner* the V*epvice» ; of the < wurses, ahd ihe hoped- that, theyp&ople** of Auek' land -would t-^e&miltti*-'4<"*P*, the 'benefits of>such.'«a-soheineVto apply f equally to war iinUM's^s and 'fehds<J^ in> civilian 'ltespitals; '•'■ - lse thought' there "should, bte retiring home», whioh veteran-avuuses/«>uld ent'el* .at- the dose/ of' -their >-«areett4,t instead of, perhaps, having nothing better to look forward to fchan such refuge as might be provided by the old age pension. He was certain that Lady Liverpool would be willing; to head any such movement, and if the same were successful he would be pi'epared to consider the matter pf recommending a tjoyenimeiit subsidy. ,