LATE MISS PATTRICK

Wairarapa Daily Times, 9 December 1937, Page 8

LATE MISS PATTRICK

MEMORIAL FUND. APPEAL FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS. At the meeting of the Masterton branch of the Plunket Society yesterday, a circular was received from the Wellington executive erf the Miss Pattrick Memorial Fund Committee seeking co-operation in obtaining subscriptions towards a memorial. Mrs. T. F. Watson undertook to organise the appeal in this' district. Contributions to the fund are invited and may be entrusted to. Mr.' J. Y. Gordon, chemist, Queen Street, or handed in at “Tho Age'* office. All sums received will be duly acknowledged. Miss Anne Pattrick, who died in London on October 19 last and was Director of Plunket Nursing from 1920 until she retired from active work in 1934, has been called the directing genius of the great expansion of Plunket nursing work which took place in the post-war period. The .“New Zealand Nursing Journal" said of her recently: “She became known, loved and looked up to from end to end of New Zealand. Nurses and committees alike were helped and inspired by her visits a 3 she travelled from branch to branch, and by virtue of her personality and her wide knowledge she became a very vital connecting link in the work. At the same time, she maintained her overseas nursing and child welfare connections and kept up an enormous correspondence; by these contacts and those in New Zealand with the Health Department, the medical profession and the Registered Nurses' Association, she did much to enhance the prestige of the Plunket Nursing Service at home and abroad. Throughout, Miss Pattrick's special qualities formed a perfect complement to Sir Truby King's genius and the fact of their association was of untold value to child welfare."