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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 April 1909, Page 67

Miss Purcell has left New Zealand for a visit to England. Nurse Winifred B. Norman is doing private nursing at .Marton. Sister Simpson is engaged to Dr. Falconar, of the Dunedin Hospital. Also Nurse Barron, late of Timaru Hospital, to Dr. Burns of Timaru. Dr. Rogers to Miss Gwen. O'Callaghan. Miss Cora Anderson has just returned from a trip to Hobart and Sydney. Nurse Wilson, from Thames is also away visiting various parts of the North Island. Miss Annie Rochfort has been appointed staff nurse at the Sanitorium at Hanmer. vt* vl» »1* ■*$*. **lm aaSx* *f* *T* *I* -T* **^ r Mrs. Desmond, 21 years Matron of the Oamaru Hospital, resigned her position m February. Miss Dick, trained m Chorlton Union Hospital, Manchester, was appointed Matron m her place.

Nurse C. Smith, trained at St. Helens, Auckland, has gone to Dunedin to live. ;': >': :'< :': :': * Nurse E. E. Beattie has also gone to our Southern City. * :'.: .»: ;;: * * Miss Hay recently resigned the matronship of the Forth Street Maternity Hospital. Nurse Rose Macdonald, trained m the Dunedin Hospital, and m Forth Street Maternity, has been appointed Matron. Sister Gumbley, from Wanganui, has been appointed Sister m the Auckland Hospital. _;: . >': :.: :',: * * Miss Edwards has resigned her position of Matron of Napier Hospital, and intends taking a long holiday m Sydney. SJff * * * * * Miss Berry, Sub-Matron m charge of the Nurses' Home m Wellington, has been appointed Matron. *** * * * Xurse Millard is at present visiting Dunedin from Australia, and while here is doing private nursing. Mrs. Wooten, Matron of Auckland Hospital, recently spent her holiday at Rotorua and Wellington. Miss Spellman is moving from her private hospital to the house lately used for Dr. Hosking's Hospital. a|e s|c a|e- a|e a|e s|e Nutse Law, from Christchurch Hospital, is now undergoing her maternity training m St. Helens, Dunedin. $*$ * % ♦ Nurse Bilton, from Napier Hospital, is going through her course of midwifery training at St. Helens, Dunedin. ****** Nurse Gertrude Mason, of the Wellington Hospital, has been appointed Sister on the staff of the Hamilton Hospital. ****** Miss Dixon, Matron of Whangarei Hospital, has also been away for her annual holiday, and was relieved by Nurse Wilson of Auckland.

Nurse Mildred Ellis, of the Wellington Hospital, has been appointed Matron of the Karitane Hospital for Babies. ****** Nurse Ellis, late of Wellington, has commenced visiting nursing m Christchurch. anel is living at Miss Lonergan's Home. ****** Nurse Sexton, of the Private Hospital, Feilding, is going through her midwifery training at St. Helens, Wellington. 3jC *f% sJ** ?JC 3J* 3J* Nurses Rose and Lamb, of Thames, have been doing temporary duty m Gisborne Hospital during an epidemic of typhoid. *** * * * Nurse Eaddy has resigned from the staff of the Gisborne Hospital, and after a holiday intends to take up private nursing m Auckland. Miss Clyne, who has been m charge of Dr. Barclay's piivate hospital, m Waimate for some years, has resigned, and is private nursing. Sister Marion Little, of Christchurch, and late vSister of Ashburton Hospital, has been appointed Matron of Westland Hospital,. Hokitika. ****** Miss Beet ham, Matron of Wanganui Hospital, has been away for a holiday of six weeks, during which time Miss Lamb, from Auckland, relieved her. ****** Sister Paul, Sub-Matron of St. Helens, Auckland, has lately returned from a holiday spent at Rotorua, and is enchanted with the sights of Wonderland. ****** Miss Keath, late of Dr. Hosking's Private Hospital, Masterton, is leaving New Zealand next month with her sister, Mrs. Mason, for a long visit to England. ****** Miss Cruden resigned her position of Matron of Waimate Hospital, and is now private nursing m that district. A presentation was made her on leaving the hospital, an account of which is given. Miss Shanks, who has been staff nurse at Riverton Hospital for some time, was appointed Matron.

Sisters Bell and Williams have just returned from spending an enjoyable though quiet time m the Waitakerei Bush ; a place little known but very beautiful. ****** Nurse W. Lamb has resigned her position on the staff of the Thames Hospital, and is doing private nursing for six months. After which she is to be married to Mr. S. West, Waikino. Miss Gosling, for some years Matron of Reefton Hospital, was appointed Matron of Nelson Hospital, that position having been vacated recently by Miss Field owing to family reasons. Nurse Walsh, from Victoria, who has been housekeeping for her brother, Dr. Walsh, at Thames, has now returned to her nursing work, and taken a position on the staff of the Christchurch Hospital. Sister Margetts, late Matron of the Auckland Hospital, has resigned her position, m order to join her sisters m their private hospital for maternity cases, which they have recently greatly enlarged. Miss M. E. Brooke-Smith is now m Dunedin, and has been ordered several months rest by her doctor ; so she is obliged to give up nursing for the present. ****** Nurses White and King, trainees of St. Helens Hospital, Dunedin, are going to open a private maternity hospital m Timaru m June next. Their fellow pupils wish them every success m their new undertaking. ****** Miss Stewart was appointed Matron of the Nurses' Home, Wellington, and Miss Dencker was appointed visiting nurse to the Association m place of Nurse Atkins. ****** Miss Stewart has resigned her position of Matron of Gisborne Hospital, after the long term of nineteen years. She will be much missed by her nurses, by whom she was much beloved, and to whom she endeavoured to impart the true spirit of nursing. A presentation is being got up for Miss Stewart by the residents of Gisborne, of which we hope to cceive details.

_ Miss Godfrey, Matron of Dannevirke Hospital, has been appointed Matron of the Gisborne Hospital.