Woman’s World

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 264, 8 November 1945, Page 2

Woman’s World

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. C. R. White, College Street, is on a holiday v'sß to Palmerston North. Mrs. H. L. Williams, Gonville, has returned from Christchurch. Mrs. Roger Nelson, Wanganui, has been visiting Wellington. Miss M. 1. Lambic, 0.8. E., Director of Nursing for New Zealand, wso has been vis.ting Wanganui, returned yesterday to Wellington. Mrs. Garthon Harper, of Auckland, with her infant daughter, is at present in Wanganui, staying with her mother, Mrs. F. L. Peck, College Street.

ENGAGEMENTS

Horsley—Lees.—The engagement is announced between Kenneth Ray, second son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Horsley, of Wanganui, and Susan Beatrice, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. M. Lee, Kawau Island. Thompson—Cooke.—Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Cooke, Wanganui, have pleasure in announcing the engagement of their only child, Vivienne, to Walter Reed (2nd. N.Z.E.F.), elder son of Mr. F. and the late Mrs. C. Thompson, Tokomaru Bay, East Coast.

NURSES’ AWARDS

PRESENTATION AT HOSPITAL. Several nurses were presented with hospital certificates and medals at a well-attended ceremony, held in the Nurses’ Home, Wanganui Public Hospital, yesterday morning. Miss M. I. Lambie, 0.8. E., Director o£ Nursing for New Zealand, who was introduced by the matron, Miss L. M. Corsbie, made the presentations. Miss Corsbie, in welcoming Miss Lambie, said it was a great privilege to have her with them as a guest. She also welcomed the visitors, saying she was glad to see students from the Girls' College and Technical College, and hoped to get recruits from them when they have left school.

Miss Corsbie congratulated the nurses on their success and wished them many years of happy work and good luck in their career. Dr. H. L. Widdowson, medical superintendent, who was accompanied by Mrs. Widdowson, extended a welcome to Miss Lambie. He congratulated the nurses who had graduated and wished them all the good luck possible.

Miss Lambie expressed her pleasure at being asked to be present at the ceremony and present the medals, and said she was always pleased to see nurses who had completed their training and were setting out on their profession. She referred to the extra burden carried by hospitals during the war, the threat of a Japanese invasion occasioning extra work. The fact that nurses had had to do that will stand them in very good stead. Miss Lambie gave instances of what a nurse can mean to a community. In talking to evacuees from Stanley Camp and Hongkong, they had told her of three nurses, two of whom were New Zealanders, who had helped to keep up the morale of 10,000 women in a Jap camp. They inspired and gave support to the people in the camp. The speaker pointed out what nurses as women stand for in a community. They must lead lives that they can wear the uniform with credit. The greatest happiness is in giving, for in giving they also receive. Nursing throughout the whole world has come to the crossroads, she said, and avenues of service will be wider. Miss Lambie concluded by wishing the nurses great happines and success in the future. She was presented with a bouquet of beautiful roses. After being presented with the medals and certificates, which were handed Io Miss Lamb : e bv Sister E. Willcox, senior tutor sister, Miss Corsbie presented each graduate with la history of the five-pointed star. The | successful trainees were Nurses M. B. IM. Armstrong (who was also presentled with a book for honours in medical and nutrition), C. J. Hughes, M. M. .Cutfield. M. C. O’Leary, P. I. Campbell (who was unable to be present lowing to sickness) and J. Barry (who was away). Dressed in a gown of the period of Florence Nightingale and carrying a lighted candle in a holder, one nurse centred the group of trainees on the platform. Miss Whittaker was the pianist and Miss Kaveny recited the Nurses’ Pledge. After the ceremony the visitors, including members of the board, were entertained at morning tea.’