Sister A. G. Hawken.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume VIII, Issue 4, 1 October 1915, Page 196

Sister A. G. Hawken.

Our readers will regret to learn that a cable has been received from her fellowworker, Sister E. Martin, announcing that Sister A. G. Hawken died at Alexandria, of enteric fever, on October 28th. No further details are yet to hand. Miss Hawken was trained at the Auckland Hospital and was Gold -Medallist for her year. She was for a short while district nurse to Natives for Bay of Islands ; but resigned because she could not manage tho constant riding over rough country that the position entailed. She was almost immediately afterwards appointed Matron of the Kawakawa Hospital, which position she very capably filled, gaining the regard and respect ot all those with whom she came m contact ; this was amply demonstrated by the enthu sia stic send -o f f accorded to her by the Hospital Beard and residents when she accepted the call for active service, and left on ?eave from the hospital m June last to join the " Maheno," all looking forward to her return to resume her position again. We sympathise deeply with her parents and relatives m their sad loss, which we also mourn, for such^as she can i]l be spared from the ranks of our profession. We must never the less feel proud that she has died nobly m the execution of herjluty.