NORSES FOR EGYPT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11405, 23 October 1915, Page 8

NORSES FOR EGYPT.

100 MORE TO GO. Per Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 22. The Prime Minister informed a reporter to-night that he had received a cablegram from the Imperial authorities asking if New 7 Zealand could supply another hundred trained nurses for service in Egypt. The information placed before him was to the effect that the nurses cuuld he supplied. Dr. Valintiue, Inspector-General of Hospitals, had reported that the number mentioned could ho spared without impairing the efficiency of the public hospitals, and Miss McLean, who nad the matter in hand, had stated that there would be no difficulty in enrolling nurses from among the volunteers already in the books. The Cabinet had decided, therefore, that a hundred nurses should he sent.

Mr Massey mentioned that probablv the nurses would go as passengers in the hospital ships when they left New Zealand. The Marama would be leaving in December, and the Maheno —which was making the trip back to New Zealand —would be leaving Wellington again a little later.