NEW ZEALAND NURSES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13873, 15 September 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEW ZEALAND NURSES.

600 OFFER FOR SERVICE

[Ohited Press Apsoctation.]

Wellington, Sept. 6

Up to date 183 registered New Zealand nurses have been sent to the front. The number of nurses on the State Registered Roll is ISOO, but some of these have since married while'others are dead. In several instances nurse* have paid their own passages to England and Egypt rather than await a doubtful chance of being sent away by the New Zealand Government. The authorities at Home have so far been only too glad to have the services of Now Zealand registered nurses. So far about 600 applications have been receiv-

Ed from registered nurses who are desirous of-going to the front and official inquiries from the matrons of the various hospitals have shown that about 300 are available without causing anyserious inconvenience as far as local requirements are concerned. The policy has been adopted of sending three registered nurses on each transport leav-

ing New Zealand. This enables any nurse already at the front to be granted furlough in the case oi' a breakdown or indisposition, their places being taken by the latest arrivals. The three nurses to leave on the next transport will be Matron Agnes Kate Steuhenson (Waikato sanatorium), who will be in charge, Nurse Mary Affleck (Christchurch Hospital), and Nurse Margaret Boyd (Wellington Hospital). ' Both Nurse Affleck and Nurse Boyd have been nursing at Trentham camp.