PERSONALS.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 3, 1 July 1927, Page 168

PERSONALS.

Miss Inez Smart, who has for some time been on the staff" at Hazebrouck Private Hospital, Marton, has left for a trip to the Fiji Islands. Miss Kathleen Owen is doing temporary duty at Miss M. Flower's Maternity Hospital, Marton. Sister Elsie McKenzie (N.Z.A.N.S.) is doing private nursing in Melbourne. Sister Eileen Hodge, trained in the Wanganui Hospital and later in charge of Private Hospital, Raetihi, was married on April 27th to Mr. Eric Salmon, of Hastings.

Miss Marjorie Ulwood, trained at Kawa Kawa Hospital, is now Mrs. Bloomfield, and is living at Kaitaia. Miss Sybil Petre, trained Christchurch Hospital, is now Mrs. Vincent Ward. Her address is Heretaunga. Miss Edith Burrell, trained at the General Hospital, Bristol, England, has been appointed Ward Sister at the Dannevirke Hospital. Letters have been received from Miss Thurston, who has now reached England, and is living in Beckenham, Kent. Sisters Persen and Child have gone to Sydney for a trip. While there they hope to visit Miss M. M. Cameron, R.R.C, who has been invalided ever since her terrible experience in the "Marquette" disaster. Sister C. Blackie, another "Marquette" victim, has lately been appointed a district nurse in the Wanganui district under the Bush nursing scheme. Miss Edith Buckley, trained at Auckland Hospital, who was for some years Matron of the District Hospital, Lithgow, N.S.W., is now Matron of the Gippsland Hospital, Sale, Victoria. Miss I. Buckton, trained in Thames Hospital, took ante-natal and midwifery certificates in St. Helens Hospital, Christchurch, last year, and this year completed Plunket training in Dunedin. Miss Macdonald, Matron Napier Hospital, has returned from a trip to India and the Malay States. She had a most enjoyable holiday, and looks much improved in health. She was entertained at supper on the night of her return to the hospital by the nurses who gave her a most hearty welcome. Miss Melville, for over nine years Matron of the Wairoa Hospital, and who recently retired, has been granted a pension of £50 a year by her late Board, its continuance being subject to the Board's pleasure.

A Mothercraft Centre has been established at Canberra, and a nurse has been appointed in charge of the work, which will be extended to all suburbs of the new city. Mothers to attend at a depot and the nurse to visit other suburbs as soon as suitable depots can be arranged Sister Ella Whiting, late of the Baby Health Centre at Waverley, Sydney is in charge. She had a distinguished'war service record, and was selected from a large number of applicants. The Federal Commission is giving the bociety great assistance bv providing the residence and salary of the nurse for two years The Committee equipped the centre, which will be conducted on the same lines as the Baby Health Centres controlled by the State Government. Miss Edith Orr and Miss I. McOwen both trained in Auckland, and for the past three years engaged in private nursing, have gone to Australia to take up nursing for a short time. Nurse A. M. Storey, who trained at the Christchurch Hospital, is now a bush nurse at Lunawanna, South Brune Island, Tasmania. Miss E. M. Hilditch, formerly Matron of Tauranga Hospital, left for America in April where she hopes to spend an enjoyable holiday. Miss I. M. Page, who trained at the Christchurch Hospital and was for some time Sister at the Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, left New Zealand in April for a trip to England. A/r^ iSS A , c Hama " n . has been appointed Matron of Scots College (Boys' College) Wellington, and commenced her duties towards the end of April. Miss Clara McKeague is on the staff of the Rotunda Hospital, Ireland, where she finds the work most interesting. Miss Eileen Knight appears to be having a most enjoyable holiday in Ireland after nursing some months in England' She and Nurse Musker contemplate visiting Pans before returning to New Zealand.

Sisters Margaret and Harriett Trask have returned from an eight months' visit to Australia, and the former is very much improved in health. They propose settling in Wellington.

Miss D. Smith, Sister on the staff of the Hamilton Hospital, is leaving for England in June, where she hopes to get nursing work.