Honours Presented

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XI, Issue 2, 1 April 1918, Page 70

Honours Presented

Investiture at Government House

On Tuesday, 23rd April, by command of His Majesty the King, an Investiture ■Was held at Government House, Wellington, When the Governor-General presented to Surgeon-General R. S. F. Hende son, the insignia of a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and to Colonels C. M. Gibbon, H. E, Potter, N. P. Adams, Lieutenant-Colonel L. E. Bamett, and Major Norton Francis, the insignia of a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. His Excellency also handed to Miss Hester Maclean, the capable and much respected Matron-in-Chief of the N.Z.A.N.S., the

badge of the First Class of the Royal Red Cross decoration, a decoration Which she has Well earned, as on her devolved the organization of the N.Z. Military Nursing Unit ; to Miss Bird and Mrs. B. Mitchell Were handed the badge of the Second Class of the Royal Red Cross decoration. The former has done nearly three years' service m Egypt, and England, and is now on pension for twelve months, as a result of th c strenu ou s Woi k . Mrs. Mit c h ell , better knoWu to the Nursing World as Siste Beatrice Brooke, late of the Belverdale Private Hospital, Wangaiuii, Wa , on th e Staff of the Hospital Ship Maheno.