FINAL TRIBUTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 244, 14 October 1937, Page 2

FINAL TRIBUTES

MISS ANNE PATTRICk LATE PLUNKET DIRECTOR FUNERAL AT BROOKWOOD (From a London correspondent.) LONDON, Sept. 25. The funeral of Miss Anne Pattrick, of Christchurch, formerly Director of Plunket Nursing in New Zealand, who died on September 19. took place yesterday at the Brookwood Cemetery, Woking. A short service was held in London at the Necropolis, Waterloo Station, and was attended by a large number of friends, the majority of whom were present at the graveside service. A great many wreaths were laid on the grave, which is situated in the New Zealand soldiers’ section. Among those present at the London service- were Lady Galway (chairman of the executive of the Mothercraft Training Society) and Dr. R. C. Jewesbury (honorary medical director), Mr. H. T. B. Drew (representing the High Commissioner and the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association), Mrs. Murcto MacCrae (representing the Hataitai branch of the Plunket Society), Miss M. Liddiard (nursing director of the Mothercraft Training Society), Dame Alicia Lloyd Still (matron of St. Thomas’ Hospital) and Miss G. V. Hillier (assistant matron)—both representing the Nightingale Training School, and Miss F. Hedderwick (matron, Cromwell House). New Zealanders Who Attended New Zealanders present were:— Sir Hugh and Lady Acland, Mr. and Mrs. Tythe Brown (Wellington), Miss Thurston (Christchurch, Miss Baker, Miss Bingham (Otago), Mrs. Cameron (Wellington), Mrs. Cartwright, Miss Chandler, Miss Campbell and Miss Grant (New Plymouth), Miss I. Hawkins (Hamilton», Misses Kahn (Wellington), Mrs. F. A. Kidd and Miss J. Livingston (Auckland), Miss L. Miller (Hastings), Miss E. Paynter (Stratford), Miss J. Samson (Wellington), Mrs. Tiller, Miss Wilson, Miss Naismith, Miss Hooper, Miss Hills Young, Sister Birley and Sister Elizabeth (St. Thomas’ Hospital).

Wreaths were sent by the Mothercraft Training Society, the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, the Plunket nurses of New Zealand, the matron and sisters of the Nightingale Training School, New Zealand nursing sisters in England, the staff of Cromwell House, Highgate, sisters and brothers, and another “In sacred memory of the life and devotion to humanity of one of New Zealand’s greatest women.” An Oustanding Personality Miss M. Liddiard, S.N.R., S.C.M., wrote the following note of appreciation which was published in the Times:— “My first meeting with her was in 1918, when she pioneered the Mothercraft Training Society through its early difficult days. Her personality was an outstanding one, which could be felt when she entered a room. Those of us who were privileged to train under her were inspired and enthused in a way difficult to explain. When visiting New Zealand I found that she created the same spirit ot love and devotion to duty that she had in England. She was looked up to as a friend, guide and adviser by all her nurses. She was truly great, human, humorous; she had a large heart and big interests; she loved human beings, Nature, birds and all life. She will be missed by her friends- in many countries as her activities were world-wide.” Service at Christchurch Recently in the Christchurch Hospital Chapel a memorial service was held for the late Miss Annie (Nance) Pattrick. The Rev. M. A. Rugby PrMt, in his address, referred to the life-work of Miss Pattrick, the varying stages of her career, her record at the Karitane-Harris Hospital, Dunedin, where, as matron, she illustrated the spirit of its founder and materialised his visions and her own visions for child welfare. Of her service on the hospital ship Marama during the sorrow-laden years of the Great War and her collaboration with Sir Truby King in a truly wonderful ministry on behalf of the stricken children of central Europe. He said that all were acquainted with her rich contribution of service- in connection with the introduction of Plunket nursing ideals into England, of her work in New Zealand, in which she spent herself in. striving to make life richer, fuller, happier and healthier for the women and children of this Dominion. Miss Pattrick wore every distinction modestly and was one of those rare souls who can walk with kings and yet keep the common touch. She was absorbed in her work and was content to be n channel of service, but she sought to inspire all her helpers with her own spirit of glad and self-forgetting ministry.