Otago Branch

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 4, 1 October 1915, Page 161

Otago Branch

Three Council meetings of this branch have been held during the quarter, also a special general meeting to receive the report of our two delegates to the Conference m military nursing matters, held m Wellington, m August ; Mrs, Fraser and Miss Monson who represented us, handed m a written report and gave many interesting details of their visit. At this meeting it was decided to advertise inviting all certificated ex-nurses who could give the whole or part of their time if required to register their names with the secretary of this branch to form the nucleus of a " Nurses' Volunteer Reserve/ Some names have already been received and Mrs. IVaser has left for Hamner to take charge of the Convalescent Home for soldiers which is being established there.

At the last Council meeting a resolution of heartfelt sympathy was sent to the family of the late Dr. F. C. Batchelor. All Dunedin trained nurses must feel deep regret at the death of one who has been so intimately associated with the nursing profession m Otago from its infancy, and who m fact was one of the first to insist upon the necessity for the highest possible standard of nursing m our hospitals and never failed to appreciate good work on the part of a nurse.