SELASSIE ECONOMISES
MUCH OF FORTUNE GONE PRINCESS AS NURSE LONDON, Sept. 1. Emperor Ilaile Selassie is .house,hunting iu‘ London because he 'finds living in hotels too expensive. In an interview at the Abyssinian Legation, he said : “I spent a very large part of my fortune in the struggle for independence for my country. Now I have to economise as best I can. “1 do not intend to settle in England. I still dream and' hope of returning to Abyssinia. At present I have not the means.” The Emperor added that he would not buy the Abyssinian Legation house in Princes’ (late, as was at first imagined. “I am looking for a house in l’utney Heath,” he added. He hopes to attend the next meeting of the League of Nations in September. Princess. Tsahai, his. 16-yenr-old daughter, will shortly enter the llospila I for Sick Children, (.Irenl Ormond street. London, to train as a nurse. She has always interested herself in hospital work, and became a volunteer worker for her father’s first field ambulance unit during the Jtalo-Abyssinian War. She will do three months’ preliminary training—the customary period—to discover whether she likes the work, and to enable the hospital authorities to discover whether she is suited for it. At tin* end of three months. Princess Tsahai will be enrolled as a "permanent” probationer, and will undergo three years’ training.
She may then go to a general hospital for further experience, and return to the Hospital for Sick Children to liecome a State registered children’s nurse.
Princess Tsahai will live at I ho nurses' home, and will receive the nominal salary of about £2O a year. When she lirst came to London the Princess was in great demand' to address meetings organised to support her father’s ranpo in Abyssinia.
The Princess Royal, before her mar .'age to the Earl of ffarewood, also re ""ived two years’ training as a ohjl dren’s nurse at this hospital,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 14
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