WARM WELCOME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 257, 30 October 1934, Page 6

WARM WELCOME

MISS PATTRICK’S RETURN N I lISES ’ APPRECIATION [ Per Press Association. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 29. Karitane and Plunket-trained nurses, representing not only Canterbury but, tire whole of New Zealand, combined to give a welcome to Miss A. Patcrick, former Director of I’lunket Nursing in New Zealand, at a party held inChrislchurch in her honour. There was an attendance of nearly JOO. Miss Pattrick’s arrival was greeted with prolonged applause, and .she was presented with a beautiful bouquet of roses and abutilons from the nurses ot New Zealand. Greetings from Blanket Nurses’ Associations from almost every province in the Dominion were conveyed to Miss .Patcrick by appointed delegates for the I’lunket nurses of New Zealand. Aliss C. ’Pascoe of Nelson, presented Miss I’attrick with a quaint brass lamp as “a. symbol of light, with special significance in nursing tradition, as a token of enlightened loving service to mankind.” Not only in New Zealand, said Miss Pascoe, but all over the Empire the inspiration of Aliss Pattrick’s life and work had spread a wonderful light. In addition to the greetings personally conveyed from the New Zealand associations, there were more than 80 letters, telegrams and cables, some from Canada, England and Australia, and a bouquet was presented from former New Zealand nurses now overseas. Another presentation made was a black evening bag studded with brilliants and containing a cheque from the Plunket and Karitane nurses of New Zealand and overseas. The sub-matron of the. Wellington Hospital, Aliss Clark, spoke for the Karitane Hospital staffs in paying a tribute to the remarkable work accomplished by Aliss Pattrick. In her reply, Aliss Pattrick said, alter thanking the nurses for the wonderful tributes they had paid her, she could wish her retirement from her work had been less confused, and no one regretted that more than herself. However the loyalty and und«rstariding shown her by the workers in the nursing profession would always remain to counteract any feelings of disappointment in the future.