Miss Lambie, Director Of Nursing, To Retire At End Of December

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 November 1949, Page 7

Miss Lambie, Director Of Nursing, To Retire At End Of December

After more than 30 years with the Department of Health, Miss M. I. Lambie, 0.8. E., Director of Nursing, will retire at the end of the year. Miss Lambie has held her present post since April, 1931. She joined the department in June, 1918. On three occasions Miss Lambie has been overseas on nursing affairs. In 1925 she took a public health nursing course in Toronto on a Department ot Health bursary. She visited England also and was away for 18 months. The United States, Canada and Europe were included in Miss Lambie’s itinerary when she went overseas for nine months in 1931 on a Rockefeller Fellowship. She was also New Zealand delegate to the International Council of Nurses conference held in London. Ten years later Miss Lambie was again one of the New Zealand delegates to the I.C.N. conference, which in 1947 was held in New York. The distinction of being the first New Zealander to be elected world president of the Florence Nightingale International Foundation was given to Miss Lambie in 1946. She held the post till this year, when the foundation was absorbed into the I.C.N. as a new council. Miss -Lambie is a member of this council, which has six nurse and two doctor members. After retirement Miss Lambie will continue to live in Wellington.