Resignations, Appointments, &c.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 1 October 1924, Page 185

Resignations, Appointments, &c.

Miss M. Walshe has been appointed District Nurse at Aitutaki, Cook Island Group, and left to take up her appointment by the s.s. Maungonui on Sept. 17.

Miss H. M. La Fontaine, who recently returned from the Cook Island Group, where she has been nursing for the past six years, has accepted a position as matron of Dr. MaunselPs private hospital, Manaia, and has left Wellington to take up her duties there.

Miss Wright and Miss Greenwood have been appointed sisters on the Wellington Hospital staff.

Miss Braidwood has been appointed matron of the Grey River Hospital.

Miss K. I. Reid has been appointed relieving nurse under the Health Department.

Miss B. Smith has resigned her position as Home night sister at the Dunedin Hospital.

Sister Boyce, matron of Naseby Hospital, is at present taking her Plunkel training at Karitane Hospital. Sister Mutlan, of the Trained Nurses* Club, Dunedin, is relieving Sister Boyce.

Nurse Gudgeon has returned to St. Helens Hospital, Dunedin, after taking her Plunket training at Karitane Hospital.

Miss Mary Lambie, formerly school nurse at Christchurch, is at present m training at the Karitane Harris Hospital, Dunedin.

Miss M. J. Ratliff, who has just completed her training at the Karitane Harris Hospital, Dunedin, is at present relieving the matron of the Nurses' Club, Wellington.

Miss Brown, matron of Dunedin Hospital for the past two years, has resigned m view of her approaching marriage.

Miss E. Allen, who completed her training at the Waihi Hospital, has been appointed staff nurse at the Taumarunui Hospital.

Sister Bursill has resigned her position as sister m charge, Fever Hospital, Wellington, and is now staying with friends m Auckland.

Miss Geraldine Broad, formerly a nurse Inspector of Hospitals and Midwives under the District Health Office, Dunedin, and for a year matron ofc* the Greymouth Hospital, has been reappointed nurse inspector for the Wellington District, and commenced her duties on September Ist.

Miss Lucy M. Lea, trained at New Plymouth Hospital and at St. Helens Hospital, Wanganui, has been appointed Nurse Inspector of Hospitals and Midwives, and commenced her duties at Wellington on July Ist.

Miss S. Hetherington, for many years assistant matron at Wellington Hospital, has been appointed matron of the Lower Cashmere Hills Sanatorium, Christchurch.

Miss L. J. Jeffery, trained at Dunedin Hospital and at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne, who has been school nurse m Dunedin for several years, has now been appointed Nurse Inspector of Hospitals and Midwives at Dunedin.

Miss Leila Gray, trained at Wellington Hospital and the Alexandra Home, Wellington, has been appointed school nurse m the Nelson District.

Miss Kathleen Walsh, who went to Dublin for her midwifery training m 1922, and who took a post-graduate course at St. Thomas's Hospital, London has now accepted a position of two years' duration under the Colonial Nursing Association at Newfoundland.

Miss Lena M. Macdonald has been appointed sister m charge of the Opunake Cottage Hospital.