MARRIAGES.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume II, Issue 4, 1 October 1909, Page 171

MARRIAGES.

Nurse Winifred Lamb, late of Thames Hospital, and Mr. Stanley West, of Waitrino, were married on the 30th August, and left for Sydney to spend the honeymoon.

A quiet wedding took place at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Thursday, 10th June, when Mr. Hell, of Auckland, was married to Nurse Addie L,atimer, of the Auckland Hospital, and later engaged in private nursing. The acting Vicar, the Rev. Mr. Smailes, officiated. The bride, who looked charming, was attended by the sister of the bridegroom and her niece, the happy couple leaving shortly afterwards for their home in the country.

A very pret±3 r wedding took place in Nelson on Thursday, 26th August, when Mr. Wingneld, of Auckland, was married to Nurse Webber, late of St. Helens Hospital, Auckland. The bride looked very pretty in her wedding dress of white silk and orthodox veil of beautiful net, embroidered with flowers and true lovers' knots, and carried a shower bouquet of hyacinths, white camellias, snowflakes, and maidenhair fern. The happy couple left shortly after the ceremony to get the boat for Wellington, en route to Sydney, where the honeymoon is to be spent, the bride looking extremely nice in her going-away costume and toque.

On Wednesday, 30th June, a pretty but quiet wedding took place atfthe residence of the bride's parents, " Erm holme/' Hopetoun Street, Auckland, when Mr. I,awson, M.A., Principal of the Warrnanibool College, Victoria, was married to Nurse Ida McMasters, late of Wanganui Hospital, and later of the Women's Hospital, Melbourne. The Rev. j . H. Simmonds. Principal of Three Kings' College, performed the ceremony. The bride, who was given away by her father, looked well in a cream satin gown, and wore a gold and pearl necklet, the gift of the bridegroom. The bridesmaids were Miss D. McMasters, who wore a pretty brown velvet dress made in princess style, and the tiny nieces of the bride, Monica and Roma McGuiness. The bridesmaids all wore pretty brooches, the gifts of the bridegroom. Dr. A. C. McMasters, brother of the bride, acted as groomsman. Afternoon tea was served at the close of the ceremony, after which the happy couple left for L,ake Takapr.na, and on the following Monday left for their home The College, Warrnambool, Victoria.

Nurse Goldsmith is private nursing in Napier.

Sister Renouf and Sister Robinson are private nursing there, also Nurses Williams, Patterson, Maundrell, and McLean are also among the nurses working in the Napier district.

Nurse Rose has gone for a long holiday to Sydney.

Nurse Ivy is still visiting friends in Dunedin,

Sister McDonald has gone to Melbourne for a holiday.

Nurse Akenehi Hei has returned from Russell, and is in Napier.

Nurse Lang has returned from Auckland, but is still far from well.

Nurses Nairn and McNiel have started a private hospital at Hastings.

Mr. and Mrs. Skeet (late Nurse Sims) have now settled in Invercargill .

Sister Ludwig, of St. Helens, Christchurch, is spending her holiday in Auckland and Tauranga.

Nurse Mirams has been appointed Sister in charge of the operating theatre, Auckland Hospital.

Miss Mabel Rochfoit and Miss B/ooke are opening a private hospital in Wanganui shortly.

Miss Thurston, Matron of Christchurch Hospital is spending a holiday in the North Island.

Miss Gwendoline Thompson atid Miss Zena Ball have joined the Thames Hospital as probationers.

Nurse Siedeberg has been laid up with scarlet fever in the Napier Hospital. She is now convalescent.

Nurse Waters, who was acting as Plunket Nurse in Hastings, has resigned, and is now private nursing in Napier.

Nurse English, trained at St. Helens, Wellington, has now commenced her general training in Napier Hospital.

Miss Finch has resigned the Matronship of the Alexandra Home, Wellington, on account of her approaching marriage.

Nurse Florence Clarke, long in charge of the Maternity Ward at St. Marys, Otatiuhu, has been appointed Matron. Nurse Clarke was trained at the Auckland Hospital.

Sisters Creech and Graham are giving up their private hospital in Wanganui, and it is to be taken over by vSister Jessie Clark.

Nurses McAUum and Tolme, of the New Plymouth Hospital, have successfully passed their examination in anatomy and physiology.

A letter received from Nurse Purcell is published in another column, as it mentions so many of the nurses now working in London.

Nurse M. Muir who passed the recent State Examination, has reigned her position in the New Plymouth Hospital to take up private nursing.

Nurse B. E. Moffitt, who was nursing for some time in Gisborne and Wellington has, with a friend, opened a private hospital in Tamworth, New South Wales.

Nurses Treeby, Kirk, and Barnitt, who were trained in the New Plymouth hospital, and passed the recent State examination, have been appointed to the staff.

Miss Lillian Hales has been appointed Sister in charge of the Otaki Sanitorium ; Miss Catley having recently resigned that position, which she had held since the sanatorium was opened.

Sister Catley will be much missed by her patients, with whom she was much beloved. She means to have a long holiday before starting any new work.

Nurse M. K Hall, of Blenheim, is shortly to be married to Mr. E. G. Blick, of " Lucknow," Awatere. Nurse Hall nursed for a good many years in Wanganui. She does not mean to give up her interest in nursing, and intends to become a member of the N.Z.T.N.A.

Mrs. McKenzie has returned to South Africa ; she hastened her departure from Dunedin in order to catch the " Sue vie " in Sydney, so was unable to say good-bye to her numerous friends in Dunedin, but she hopes to keep in touch with her old friends in the profession through the Otago Association, of which she is a member.

A Nurses' Bureau has been established b3 r Sister M. Robinson, in Battery Road, Napier, and, is much appreciated by the doctors, nurses, and public. Miss A. Kenny is in charge. Telephone 162.

Nurse Broadbent has just given up her partnership with Nurse Eucas in the private hospital in Willis St., and is about to take a long holiday. She will spend some months visiting friends, and will then go to England.

Nurses Brewer, Yates and Goss, left Auckland for Suva on 29th September, where they intend opening a small private hospital, where they should do well, as they respectively hold general, obstetric, and massage certificates.

Miss Petrement, late Matron of the Caversham Industrial School, has taken up her residence for the present at the Nurses' Club, her plans for the future being rather indefinite.

Miss Beatrice Norman, who was for some time on the staff of the Waikato Sanatorium, and afterwards trained in midwifery at St. Helens Hospital, Auckland, has obtained the position of Matron of Dr. Drakes' Private Sanatorium, Mitcham, Victoria.

Nurse Brien has resigned from the staff of .the Thames Hospital, having been appointed as the second Plunket Nurse for Auckland. She proceeds to the Karitane Home for the necessary three months' training.

Miss C. Stewart has been staying for some time at Thames to be near her sister, and writes that she has had the best holiday she has had for 25 years, and thoroughly enjoyed it. She and her sister attended the " At Home " given to the nurses by Her Excellency, Eady Plunket.