EIGHT WOMEN IN HONOURS LIST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 10

EIGHT WOMEN IN HONOURS LIST

CONSPICUOUS SERVICES BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Eight women were included in the New Zealand New Year’s Honours list:— Dr. A. VV. Horsley, 0.8. E. ‘ Dr. Alice Horsley is the eldest daughter of the late William Woodward, M.A., Cambridge, and Mrs. Woodward. She graduated from the the third woman in New Zealand to: Otago Medical School in 1900, being j take the degree of M. 8., Ch.B. She ! has practised ever since in Auckland and is at present an honorary anaesthetist to the Auckland Hospital and to the Mater Miserieordiae Hospital. She is best known for her devoted work among tne poor of Auckland and Specially as medical officer to the Dock Street Mission. Miss B. A. Campbell, 0.8. E. Miss Campbell, who has been matron of the New Plymouth Hospital for the last 22 years, is a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Taylor Campbell, Dunedin. Previous to her appointment to her present position she was first sister and later sub-mat-ron of the New Plymouth Public Hospital. She is a member of the Nurses and Midwives’ Registration Board and has been president of the New Plymouth branch of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association since its inception 12 years ago. Miss I. M. Corkill, M.B.E. Miss Corkill was born in New Plymouth. On completing her training she was on the staff of the Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs, and about 12 years ago was appointed Red Cross nurse for Taranaki and held that position for eight years. Thereafter for two years she was Health Department nurse in Taranaki. From this position she was appointed matron of the Nurse Maude Association in July, 1936. Miss Corkill is a member of the National Council of Women, representing the Nurse Maude Association. She is also a member of the council of the Registered Nurses’ Association and is a member of the committee of the ob- « stetrieal branch of the association. i Miss N. F. Fitzgibbon, M.B.E. Miss Fitzgibbon has been nursing r adviser to the Plunket Society in ( Dunedin for five years, and has been > associated with the nursing profession j for many years. After nursing ser- ; vice during the war she was ap- < pointed matron of the Karitane Hospital, Dunedin. She later filled a similar post at the Auckland Kari- < tane Home, and five years ago was ; appointed nursing adviser to the society, with her headquarters at Dunedin. Miss Fitzgibbon recently ; visited the Toronto Exhibition, where, at the request of the authorities, she . arranged an exhibition of Plunket . work. i Mrs. M. F. Gaby, M.B.E. Mrs. Mary Gaby is well known for j her social welfare work in Welling- ’ ton. She was born and educated in - Wellington, and in 1913 she joined the : Wellington South Nursing .Division of ’ the St. John Ambulance Brigade, be- ' ing appointed lady divisional superintendent in 1923 and lady corps superintendent in 1929. In recognition of ‘ her services she was appointed a serving sister of the Order of St. John 1927 and in 1936 was made an officer 1 of the Venerable Order of St. John. During the Great War, the 1918 influenza epidemic, and the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake Mrs. Gaby ' was prominent in offering first aid and in assisting in nursing generally. She is a member of a number of organisations for social advancement. Miss M. J. Martin, M.B.E. Miss Martin has been associated with the nursing profession for 30 years. She was born at Winton, and is the eldest daughter of Mrs. and the late Mr. Michael Martin, Dunedin. She was educated at the Convent of Mercy, Gore, and began her nursing career at the Seacliff Mental Hospital in 1909, training under Sir Truby King, who was medical superintendent of that institution at the time. In 1917 Miss Martin was promoted to assistant matron at Seacliff and, three years later, she was appointed matron of Tokanui Mental Hospital, Te Awamutu. She was promoted to her present position as matron at Sunny-) side in 1925. Miss C. McKenny, M.B.E. Miss McKenny was trained in the Wellington Public Hospital. She then went to the Wanganui Public Hospital as matron, a position, which she held for more than 20 years. During the Great War she was for a time in the hospital ship Maheno. At the conclusion of her hospital service Miss McKenny represented the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association at the international nurses’ congress in Montreal in 1929 and the Dominion at the first international hospital conference in Athletic City in the same year. On returning to the Dominion she gave her service to the Registered Nurses’ Association. She is president of the Manawatu branch and a member of the executive council. She became New Zealand president in 1937. Miss McKenny has been a member of the Wairarapa Hospital Board for the past eight years. Miss J. A. Moore, M.B.E. Miss Moore was trained in nursing at Dunedin, and was among the first 50 nurses who left New Zealand during the Great War. Shortly after her return she was appointed matron of the Hamilton Hospital. In 1924 she was appointed nurse instructor for the Department of Health and in 1926 was sent by the Department to Bedford College, England, where she took a post-graduate course in public health nursing and hospital administration.