Director-General Of V.A.D.’s Arrives From Africa
Mrs. M. I. Hodgkinson, the new director-general of Red Cross V.A.D.’s in New Zealand, arrived in the Dominion Monarch on Thursday. She succeeds Miss Iris Crooke, who retired at the end of March. A New Zealander, Mrs. Hodgkinson, has spent more than 20 years in the nursing service in Africa. She trained at the New Plymouth Public Hospital and before going to Africa joined the Queen Elizabeth Colonial Nursing Service. Since 1948 Mrs. Hodgkinson, has been a welfare officer with the Kenya branch of the Red Cross Society. While in Africa she married and she returned to New Zealand in 1947 on a visit
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Wanganui Chronicle, 17 June 1950, Page 9
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