NURSES' MEMORIAL FUND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12086, 15 August 1917, Page 6

NURSES' MEMORIAL FUND.

A DOMINION APPEAL. Among tho many well-deserved tributes paid to women for their selfsacrificing efforts during tho war, nono has been more nobly earned than tho commendation awarded to the nurses who have left New Zealand for service- on hospital ships or at u'ho various military camps and bases. It has been generally felt that such services rendered should receive practical recognition, and whole-hearted support should be given lo the appeal now being made throughout tho Dominion for subscriptions and donations to the Now Zealand Nurses' .Memorial Fund, the main pMrpose. of which is to provide assistance and relief to trained nurses who may be distressed through sickness, accident, old ago or misfortune. The project has the patronage of tho Countess of Liverpool, and is being generously responded to by various parts of tho Dominion. It is hoped to collect at least £IO,OOO to £12.000 to form the capital of the Memorial Fund, and each of the four chief centres is asked to collect one quarter of the desired total. Nurses have- no pensions to look forward to, and their salaries and earnings, generally speaking, are not overmuniiiceht. They give their best to the service of others, and perhaps no better memorial to those nurses who have lost their lives in the Empire's cause could be devised than, this scheme to help the nurses requiring assistance. It is proposed that the fund should be Tnanaged by an executive, composed of representatives of tho various districts. Tho capital will bo kept intact, the grants made coming from the income of the aums invested and from annual subscriptions. Influential preliminary committees have already been formed in the chief towns, tho Christchurch committee, consisting, at present, of Mesdames G. Rhodes and A. C. Sandston, I>rs W. Irving and L. S. Manning, and Mr W. E. Host, tho last-named acting as honorary secretary. Subscriptions may bo forwarded to any of tho above-named, who will be pleased to send any further particulars of the scheme to those interested. »