Greek Nurse To Study In New Zealand

Wanganui Chronicle, 16 April 1949, Page 9

Greek Nurse To Study In New Zealand

A Greek nurse, Miss Zeanne Michalioupoulou has arrived in New Zealand to undertake a year’s infant welfare work with the Plunket Society on a Florence Nightingale foundation scholarship. She has gone to Dunedin to study infant welfare and obstetrics for six months at the Karitane Hospital, and will then take further study in Wellington. On completion of her term in the Dominion, she will return to her homeland. Miss Michalioupoulou said that on her return to Athens she would become a tutor sister in the Maternity School, Malaca llici, where she trained. Leaving Athens by air, she flew to Alexandria in Egypt, caught a Yugoslav steame r at Port Said for Sydney, and crossed from there to Aucklnd in the Wanganella. During the last war Miss Michalioupoulou was still at school. She je cently completed three years’ nursing training in Athens, where she lives with her parents and two brothers, and then worked for six months in the