FAREWELL TO NURSE INGRAM AT RICHMOND.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13757, 21 April 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

FAREWELL TO NURSE INGRAM AT RICHMOND.

(From "The Colonist," April 1.)

A representative gathering of the residents assembled at the Council Chambers, Richmond, on Tuesday evening, to bid good-bye to Nurse Ingram, who is leaving shortly, having enlisted as a nurse for duties at the front, and to make a small presentation to her in the shape of a wristlet watch. The Mayor (Mr G. Ohisnall) said they had met that evening for the purpose of saying good-bye to one who had been brought up amongst them, and also to make a small presentation to her as an expression of appreciation of the patriotic impulse that had prompted her to offer her services. Although perhaps it was hard to realise from this distance the actual amount of suffering awaiting the skilled attention of both doctors and nurses, it could, ho thought, be truly stated that the mission our'nurses were going on would be a strenuous one. They would often be robbed of necessary rest, besides having to submit to many hardships. He felt that all in Richmond were proud that Nurse Ingram had succeeded in the noble profession which she had chosen, and for which she was so well fitted. They realised the sacrifices she was now making, and he could only hope that, in Goers keeping she would be fortified with health and strength to enable her to perform the manifold duties that would be expected of her, and be protected as far as possible from the perils and dangers of war. Or. Haycock, in a happy speech, spoke in appreciation of the patriotism of Nurse Ingram in offering her services. He was not in the least surprised that they were readily accepted, -and-he felt that should Lord Kitchener see such nurses as Nurse Ingram arriving from the Dominion, he would soon be asking for some more. The Mayoress then placed the watch upon the wrist of the departing nuree, asking that it should be accepted as from the residents* of Richmond, and expressing a hope that it- would prove useful to her in traroHuTgf asr - well as when she was on duty. She trusted that at the end of this terrible war she might have a safe and happy home coming.

Nurse Ingram, on rising to reply, said, that words failed to adequately convey to the good people of Richmond how much she..appreciated their kindness. When the call came for nurses, she felt it her duty to her country to offer her services. She thanked them for their very useful present.

UmtepPrehh Association. ! Wellington, April 8 Fifty nurses, v.'ho are to go to the front nuclei' arrangement with the Imperial authorities loft by the steamer Robnrua for London to-day. They had tv groat send-off. A.-number of buildings vvei'o decorated,, and there was a large crowd on Glasgow Wharf and much cheering as the vessel moved off, shortl/ after noon. .Sir Joseph Ward addressed the nurses on the wharf, and, on behalf of the Patriotic Society, presented Miss McLean (Assistant In-spec I tor ■of Hospitals), who is in charge of the oarty, with a bouqv.ot.

The following is a list of New Zealand nurses who arc going to the front under arrangement ..with*"the War Office:—Misses Bertha Nurse, Frances Prico, Fanny Speedy, Edna Pengelly, Vida Maclean, F. Wilson, Elizabeth Nixuu, Isabella Soott, Kate Wright, May Chalriier, Annie' Buckley, Matilda Fricker, Carrie Youn;?, Cora Anderson, Emma Harris, Louisa Bird, Kathleen Davits, Emily dirties, Daphne Commons, Grace C'aldf;i\ Jean Cormack, Marie Wilkio, Jnnot Mooro, Jean Dodds, Christina Lowe Mary Mcßeth, EhVJjetli Snuiiles, Mary Sutherland, Maud Mitchell. Sarah Clarke, Emily Nutsey, Tua Bennett, Mabel Crook, Ethel Taylor, J.sla Stewart. Florence Sidel's, Rose Fanning, Alicia Inglis, Eva livcse'y, Edith Harris, Theresa BiitJov, ivy Fonte, Margaret Samson, Alice Searell. Christina Gibbon, Jane Miller, Kate Barnitt, .jean Ingram, Agnes Williams, Lily Burke.

Tha following are on active service with the Australian Nursing Division: Mis-sos Elizabeth White, Alice Frjiser, Ethel Dement, Grace Guthrie, Helen Brown, Cora Turnbuli, Jessie Verpy, Hilda Steele, Elsie Cooko, Nora Fitzgibbo!i, Dorothy Itose, Emily Scott.