Resignations, Appointments and Presentations

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VI, Issue 3, 1 July 1913, Page 127

Resignations, Appointments and Presentations

Miss Eleanor Brown has resigned the matronship of the St. Helens Hospital, Wellington, which she has held for the past five years. Miss Brown's departure will be greatly regretted by all who have had to do with her and her resignation was accepted by the Hospitals Department with much regret. Miss Brown intends to join her sister in their private hospital in Winton. The nurses and pupils are now arranging an evening and presentation for their esteemed Matron, in which the Medical Officer, Dr. Agnes Bennett and the Assistant Inspector, Miss Maclean, are to join. This will be reported in our next issue. % % % :fc ;fc Miss Helen Inglis formerly Matron of St. Helens Hospital, Christchurch, .and late of Te Waikato Sanatorium, has been appointed Matron of St. Helens, Wellington. ****** Miss Gosling, matron of the Nelson Hospital, has resigned her position. She is to take up a private hospital in Nelson at the request of some of the surgeons. Her resignation of a public hospital position, where she has under her charge the training of probationer nurses, is much to be regretted. Miss Dora Gill, matron of Te Waikato Sanatorium, Cambridge, has been obliged through ill health to resign that position. She is now after a long rest and holiday during three months leave granted by the Department staying with friends in tl e Gisborne district, engaged in nursing the cases of suspected small-pox at Point Chevalier isolation hospital. * * ;£ * * ifc Miss Elizabeth Nixon, late assistant matron at the Dunedin Hospital has joined the staff of the Public Health Department

and has been appointed matron of Te Waikato Sanatorium. ****** Nurso Sexton, who is resigning from the position of senior district nurse, will be greatly missed by all her patients. Mrs. Sexton has been district nurse in Wellington for over seven years, joining the Nursing Guild when it was under the order of St. John's Ambulance Association. After the president of the Association, Mrs. S. G. Rhodes, went Home, two years ago, the name was changed to St. John of Jerusalem, but Mrs. Sexton still continued the work, in which Nurse Macandrew has been associated with her. The fact that during all these years not a single complaint has ever been made by a doctor or a patient, speaks volumes for the success with which Mrs. Sexton has carried out duties which required tact as well as capability. On her side Mrs. Sexton cannot speak too enthusiastically of the generous assistance she has received, both from the medical profession and from private people whenever she has appealed on behalf of the poor. Especially she speaks with gratitude of that kind friend who year after year has sent coal for the use of the patients ; of Mr. Inniss, who has carried parcels free of charge ; and of the Gear Co., who have always given willing assistance to the Nursing Guild during the years that Mrs. Sexton . and Nurse Macandrew have worked together in it. Mrs. Sexton was presented by her Committee with a testimonial of her services of the last seven and a half years, and a purse of sovereigns. She intends to rest for a time and then resume work. ****** Miss Beatrice Walton, who was for a time District Nurse at Wanganui, was appointed to Mrs. Sexton's place as District Nurse of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in Wellington. * * * * * * vSister Urquhart, on leaving Oiaki Sanatorium, was presented with an illuminated address, by the patients expressing their appreciation of her kindness and devotion ko them. The address was so beautifully dorv? by <H>:e of the inmates an^l ha3 photos ■ ; rvv' orv-itv The gftiff ;>resonted ;•>■■ with a travelling traak.

Nurse Esther Mitchell has remained on at St. Helens as staff nurse. * * * * * * Nurse Wells trained St. Helens Hospital Wellington, is to take charge of the maternity cottage at the Pic ton Hospital where Nurse Hatelee has been maternity nurse for 2 years. ****** Nurse Ellen Taare has been appointed an assistant Native Health nurse and has gone to the Auckland district to assist in an outbreak of typhoid near Waihi, where she will be working under the supervision of Miss Dawson. ****** Nurse Fleming has been appointed staff nurse at St .Helen's Hospital, Auckland. Nurse Fleming's sister Mrs Johnston, is already in the Public service under the Education Department in connection with the Infant Life Act. ****** Nurse Brown, trained at St. Helens, Auckland, has been appointed to work at Okaihan and Okaewai under the Bay of Islands Board ; also * * * * * * Nurse Impy at Waiharara and Hohoura. Sister Jamieson has resigned her position on the Grey River Hospital staff. ****** Nurse Collier, who came to Dunedin from Hobart, has accepted an appointment at the Sanatorium, Rotorua. Nurse Margaret Thomson trained in Dunedin Hospital and now Mrs A. Cox head, writes from Whangamomona near Stratford enclosing her subscription for the journal. Whangamomona is a plae? where the settlers badly need a district nurse. Sister Wenwoth, who lately resigned from the staff of St. Helens Hospital, Wellington, was entertained at supper by the nurses who bad been her pupils during her twelve months as sub-matrony.and was presented with a handbag as a token of esteem

Miss Rosa Pollard who was for some time a sister at the Waikato Sanatorium writes from Kyoomba Sanatorium, Stanthorpe, Queensland, of which institution she is now matron. She has been spending a week in Sydney with Miss Cameron, who was on leave there, and hopes to visit New Zealand shortly to see her sister at New Plymouth. # * * * * * Nurse Mary Wright, of Adelaide Hospital, who has been nursing at Dunedin for some time has been appointed Matron of the Hospital at Ambrim, New Hebrides; Dr. Bowie the medical superintendent has just returned from Europe where he has made a special study of tropical disease; we congratulate Nurse Wright on her opportunity of studying this branch of her profession. * s£ sfc :}; s|s $z Nurse Lee has been appointed Plunket nurse at Balclutha. sj: ;!; % j£ ;]z Nurse Milne, trained in the Christchurch Hospital, and who recently passed second in New Zealand for midwifery at St. Helen's, Dunedin, has started on a three months' trip to the Islands prior to starting for mission work in India. Her friend, Nurse Kennedy, trained at the same time, is accompanying her. ;jc % jj: * Nurse Rogers, who passed the last State exam, is in training at St. Helen's, Christchurch, prior to taking up mission work in the Islands. ;£ * The twelve nurses from Christchurch Hospital who recently sat for the State exam, have all passed and with the exception of Nurse Rogers are all remaining for a fourth year to obtain more experience. * * H= * Sister Davis at present in charge of the Akaroa Hospital has resigned her position to take her midwifery training in Sydney. On the Ist September she will be succeeded by Sister Downer. Nurse Vida Maclean, trained at Wanganui Hospital and at St. Helens, Wellington, hftsn been .appointed . ■sub-matron of St. Helens, Wellington. '

The Isolation block of the Christchurch . Hospital is almost completed, at present all arrangements for furnishing are being made. We hope to open it in September. * % % # # if; Nurse Beatrice Hurst has rejoined the Nelson Hospital staff as Sister of the Male Ward. Nurse Ellen Tuke, trained some years ago in Auckland Hospital has lately come from Canada where she has been nursing chiefly at Winnipeg for ten years. She has ; also done nursing in America for the renowned Sir William Osier. Nurse Dunshea, who was so long ill at the Christchurch Hospital, after strenuous midwifery work on completing her training at St. Helens Hospital, has now returned to work again greatly to the satisfaction of her old patients. :fc :£ j£ ifc ; ■ ■ Sister Moore of the Dunedin Hospital, who has completed her midwifery course at the Forth St. Maternity Hospital, is now in charge of the Fever Hospital. Sister Brown of Dunedin Hospital is now going through her training at Forth St. H: * # * # * Nurse Nutsey and Nurse Metge of the Auckland Hospital, are at St. Helens, Welington, going through their midwifery raining. Nurse Mclntosh and Rankin, trained at St. Helens, Dunedin, have started private maternity nursing in Masterton. * * * * We regret to hear that Miss Bird, Matron of Riverton Hospital, is laid up in a private hospital in Invercargill and will need some months rest and treatment. The Board has granted her six months' leave. $ $ $ $ ft $ Miss Cameron, Matron of St. Helens Hospital, Christchurch, who has been on leave in Australia for some months, returned to Christchurch on 12th August. 5jS rj* 3(C 5p 3p 3f» Sister Harris, trained at Avondale Mental Hospital and New Plymouth General Hospital, lias ;']qeen: appointed sister at; tfy# Auckland Hospital. ;Her place at Dr. Mein-

hold's Hospital, Helensville, has been taken by Miss Stott, of St. Batholomew's Hospital, recently arrived from England. * * * * * * Nurse Winifred Veale, trained at St. Helens, Christchurch, has accepted a position as District Maternity Nurse at Herekino, north of Auckland. * * * * * * Nurse Ida M. Watts, trained at the Wanganui Hospital, is now in Auckland private nursing. 3{C $ $ $ $ * Nurse A. Muir, trained at New Plymouth Hospital, is now in Melbourne going through her midwifery training at the Women's Hospital there. * * * * * * Sister Hayward, late Home Sister at Christchurch Hospital, is going through her midwifery training at St. Helens, Auckland. * * * * * * Miss Dora GirTrey, Matron of the Whangarei Hospital, is also taking her midwifery course at St. Helens, Auckland. * * * * * * Nurse Elsie McAllum, of New Plymouth, lias been doing special duty at the Mercury Bay Hospital. $ j)c j-j i|e * $ Nurse Teresa Butler, who has had a severe illness, writes from Palmerston North, that she is now quite convalescent, and writes that she hopes to start work in private nursing very shortly. * * * * * * Nurse M. Wix, trained Nelson Hospital, is now going through her midwifery training at St. Helens, Wellington. * * * * * * Nurse Eagle, trained at Naseby Hospital, s taking her midwifery course at St. Helens, Christchurch. * * * * * * Nurse Rogers, trained at Christchurch Hospital, is also going through her midwifery course at St. Helens, Christchurch, with a view to after work in the Presbyterian Mission Hospital, in the New Hebrides. * * * * :[; s[; Nurse H. Kennedy, trained at Christchurch Hospital, and who has just com-

pleted her midwifery course in the Townley Maternity Hospital, Gisborne, i^ taking a holiday trip round the Island. * * ♦ * *K Nurse McElligott, who was for some time very ill with typhoid fever, and has been convalescing in Wellington, returned to her work at Tuparoa on July 20th. She has taken a supply of lymph to vaccinate the Maoris in the outlying parts of her district. Nurse McElligott is engaged to be married to Mr. Ludbrook, of Waiorongomai station, but the marriage is not to take place for some time. ****** Nurse Moore, who contracted typhoid while nursing at Tuparoa Camp, is now convalescent. ****** Mrs. Reedy (Nurse Heni Whangaperita) has not allowed marriage to entirely stop her nursing work. She is ever ready to help when sickness occurs, and with her fine healthy baby goes among the mothers of her race tending and helping them. ? ? "T T ? T Miss Holford, Matron of St. Helens Hospital, Dunedin, having been ordered rest and a long sea voyage by her medical adviser, was granted leave for six months on full pay, and left fot Sydney in the " Maunganui " on June 19th, to join the " Benalla" for England. ****** Miss Tombe, of St. David's Private Hospital, has given up that hospital, and also left in the " Benalla " for Home. Her friends in New Zealand hope that she will return either with Miss Holford or later. ****** Sister Gow is acting matron at St. Helens, Dunedin, with Nurse Ingram as her assistant. Nurse Gates, while going through her training at Karitane as a Plunket nurse, had an operation for appendicitis. She made a good recovery and quickly resumed her training. * * * * * * Nurse Mitchell and Nurse Cumming, of the Auckland Hospital, are now* going through their midwifery training at St, Helens Hosptal, Dunedin.

Nurse Gilmer, trained at the Wellington Hospital and at St. Helens, Auckland, has been appointed Home Sister at Christchurch Hospital. Miss Sutherland, of the Chalet, Dunedin, left New Zealand for Canada in June. She is to be married to Mr. Dunnett, M.P., of Ottawa, and her future home will be in Canada, of which country she has given some vivid impressions gathered during her recent visit there. ****** Nurse McGhie has taken over the Chalet Private Hospital, so long the property of Miss Sutherland. ****** Nurse Lucy Begbie of the Auckland Hospital is engaged in nursing the suspected cases of small-pox at Point Chevarlier. * * * * * * Nurse Mary Dennison has been appointed Plunket Nurse for Oamaru and the surrounding district, and commenced her work in June. Nurse Muriel Stronach has resigned her

position of staff nurse at St. Helens, Wellington, and is* now staying in Timaru. ****** Sister Black, of Thames Hospital, has been appointed Matron of Coromandel Hospital, in place of Miss Sellar, whose death is recorded elsewhere, and takes lip her duties on July Ist. *»* *P *P •j* *K t* Nurse C. P. Adams has joined the staff of the Hawera Hospital as Sister. ****** Miss Foote has returned from a very enjoy able holiday to Australia. Sister Ivy Foote has entered on her maternity course at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne. She has met quite a number of New Zealand Nurses who are there also for their training. ****** Nurse Kitching, of Wellington Hospital, has been appointed Sister of Otaki Hospital. ****** Nurse O'Farrell, trained at Ballarat Hospital, Victoria, is appointed Sister at the Sanatorium.