NURSES IN SPAIN

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20721, 3 February 1939, Page 10

NURSES IN SPAIN

DISAPPROVAL OF MAYOR “CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME” (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WESTPORT. Thursday The Mayor, Mr J. Kilkenny, in an interview, said he wished to clear a statement in the press that he would be unavoidably absent and, therefore, unable to take the chair at a meeting to be held at Westport to-morrow evening at which addresses on their experiences in Spain would he given by Sister M. Shadbolt and Nurse I. Dodds, who would also solicit support for stricken people in Spain. Mr Kilkenny said he had definitely refused to take the chair at the meeting in upholding the principle that “oharity begins at home.” “I am surprised,” he said, “that qualified New Zealand nurses can find so little to do in their own country where there is a general shortage of trained nurses and which, to my mind, offers greater avenues for the Indulgence in humanitarian work than many other countridte in the world. The shortage of nurses causes this state of affairs. “If people cannot find enough scope for humanitarian work in New Zealand they might look across the Tasman Sea to Australia, where the terrible tragedy caused by the disastrous bush fires has caused so much death and desolation.”