Home for International Studies

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 July 1927, Page 149

Home for International Studies

The Home for International Studies, opened by the Duchess of York, June, 1925, at 15 Manchester Square, W.I, London, is indeed fulfilling its purpose as a home away from home, for this group of world student nurses gathered yearly for the post-graduate course London can give them. The funds for this Home were contributed by the Red Cross organisations of the world, and many of the countries have given still further in their gifts, and are now furnishing a room for their own students with their own national products such as, curtains, cushions, rugs, pottery, pictures, needlework, etc., after-

wards that country's name is written on the door. Just picture the welcome after a hard day's study combined with an excursion to see the housing conditions in the slums of London to return to the warmth and comfort of your own country portrayed in your room, it really puts new life into one. I was hoping to read that New Zealand Red Cross (which, I am sure, is not poorer than many of the contributing countries, namely, Latvia, Finland, Czecho-Slovakia, etc.), had in like manner contributed to this Home and placed for all time a New Zealand room for its past and future students. — J.A.M.