LEAVING FOR GREECE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 300, 20 December 1945, Page 4

LEAVING FOR GREECE

WANGANUI DOCTORS AND A NURSE DOMINION’S C.0.R.5.0. PARTY. Two Wanganui doctors and a nurse will leave by the Mooltan in the near future for Greece as members of the New Zealand C.O.R.S. party which will assist with the relief of distress. They are Dr. Athol Patterson, a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Patterson, Ingestre Street, Wanganui, Dr. Alison Hunter, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jaimes Hunter, Fordell, and Miss Mina McGregor, a daughter of Mrs. Evan McGregor, Dublin Street. Wanganui. Dr. Patterson was educated at the Wanganui Technical College and the Otago University College. After graduating at the Medical School he was a house surgeon in various hospitals in the North Island, his most recent -post being assistant medical superintendent of the Northern Wairoa Hospital, North Auckland.

Dr. Hunter was educated at Solway College, Masterton, and the Otago University College, where she was a student at the Medical School. After graduating she was a house surgeon at the Wanganui Hospital and for three months last year was locum tenums for Dr. R. A. Church, in Marton. During the present year Dr. Hunter has been attached to the bacteorological department of the Medical School at Otago University, part of her duties being to give lectures to fourth-year students. Till recently Miss McGregor was district nurse at Pipiriki. She was educated at the Wanganui Girls’ College and carried out her general nursing training at the Wellington Hospital, subsequently qualifying for midwifery and maternity nursing. The latter part of her training was carried out in Wanganui. Miss McGregor later qualified as a Plunket nurse in Dunedin and for a period was in Suva, Fiji, where she was sister in charge of the maternity block at the General Hospital. She was later appointed house nurse for a portion of the West Coast, of the South Island, her headquarters being in Westport. From there she went to Pipiriki.