A SUDDEN DEATH.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15714, 4 January 1922, Page 3

A SUDDEN DEATH.

WELL-KNOWN HASTINGS NURSE. Quite a gloom was cast over Hastings on Monday morning when the unexpected death of Sister Francis Stack, of Hastings, was announced. It appears that Miss Stack had gone to Gisborno on a nursing engagement, and she went to Opotiki to spend Christmas with her sister, Mrs. Maurice Carroll, of Opotiki. The particulars to hand are confused and rather meagre, ono reference being to a fatal drink of lemonade. Oil Sunday (iJJew Year's Day) Mrs. J. W. Slack received a telephone message, saying that her daughter was hi a very low condition, and not expected to recover, and asking her to come on at once. Preparations were made to proceed to Gisborno by motor cur, but half an hour after the first message a second telephone message announced the sad intelligence that the girl had died. The deceased young lady, who was widely known and exceedingly popular in Hastings and district, was the youngest daughter of Mrs, arid the late Mr. J. W. Stack, of Hastings. She took up tho nursing profession when she was 17 years of age, entering Nurse O'Callaghan's private nursing establishment in Hastings, and after getting experience there she went to the Gisborne hospital, where she qualified in 1919, going into private practice subsequently. A sympathetic and capable nurse, with a cheerful and kind disposition, she endeared herself to circle of friends, and, indeed, to all who knew her, who will hear with profound sorrow of her death on the threshhold of her career. General sympathy is extended to Mrs. J. W. Stack and the family in tho affliction which has befallen them. —'Tribune.