Resignations, Appointments and Personals.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 1 October 1928, Page 200

Resignations, Appointments and Personals.

Miss Ada Taylor has resigned the position of Lady Superintendent of the Auckland Hospital, which she has held for ten years. Miss Taylor was trained at the Christchnrch Hospital and registered in 1902. She went as a Sister to Auckland Hospital in 1910 and was afterwards Matron of Waihi Hospital. She was on active service on hospital ship duty for six months during the Great War. Miss Taylor remains on duty till the end of the year. Miss Agnes Allen has resigned her position of Matron of Waiapu Hospital, which she has held for many years. She was relieved for the period of the Great War, and with her friend, Miss Williams, hastened Home to offer her services. After doing excellent work in the Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, she returned to New Zealand and resumed the Matronship of her little country hospital. Miss Margaret Watt, late N.Z.A.N.S., has resigned the position of Matron of the Wairoa Hospital, Hawke's Bay. Miss Cookson has resigned the position of Matron of Whangarei Hospital on her appointment as Lady Superintendent of Wellington Hospital.

Miss Ivy Cornish, trained at the Napier Hospital and later on the staff of the Palmerston North Hospital, who has been recently a Sister at the Otaki Sanatorium, has been appointed Matron of the Waiapu Hospital, Waipiro Bay. Miss Pownall, Matron of Otaki Sanatorium, returned from her trip to England in September and has resumed her duties at Otaki. She visited many of the sanatoria for tuberculosis while away. Miss Cabella Lord has resigned the position of Matron of Waihi Hospital. Sister Nora Arnold, who trained at the Nelson Hospital, has been doing private nursing in London and on the Continent for the past five years, is at present doing theatre work at the Nelson Memorial Hospital, Wimbledon, London. She hopes to return to New Zealand next year. Sister E. M. Arnold, who trained at the Wellington Hospital, was appointed in March Nursing Sister to the Nelson Boys' College. The position is a new one, and she finds her patients and duties varied and interesting. Nurse E. J .Knight, who recently completed her three years' training at the Wellington Hospital, has resigned. Nurse B. E. Stone-Wigg was promoted to the position of Sister. Sister E. Berry, who left to take up midwifery training was re-appointed as Sister on the staff. Sister Lea spent her annual leave after completing her course in the post-grad-uate course for the nursing diploma, at Hawera, with Sister Bessie Young. Sister Doneghue has been spending her annual leave from Pukeora Sanatorium in Wellington. Miss Bulkley, school nurse, Wellington, while on holiday at Honolulu, attended the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference as a delegate from New Zealand and went on for a trip to Japan. Dr. Emily Siedeberg, of Dunedin, read a paper on Child Hygiene in New Zealand at Honolulu. .:

Miss Lucy Brawn, who was for seven years a Sister on the staff of the Dunedin Hospital, has written to say that she has returned to England. Miss Ellen McKittrick writes to say that she has been on the staff of Sutter Hospital at Sacramento, which is about 25 miles from San Francisco. Sutter is a private hospital of 180 beds, staffed by graduate nurses. Miss McKittrick hopes to spend a short time in San Francisco and then return to Sacramento to take up private nursing. Miss M. A. Burgess, who left New Zealand last year, is at present relieving Miss Moreland, Matron of the Tweedle (Plunket) Hospital, Footscray, Victoria. Miss Burgess intends going to England towards the end of the year, travelling on one of the new Dutch boats. Nurse Marsden, of Timaru Hospital, who has been for some time on the sick list at Waipiata Sanatorium, is now staying with her brother at Manakau, and hopes to return to her training school and sit for the State examination in Decem-

ber. She is completing her cure by an open-air life spent in the garden, working hard. News from Sister Margaret Boyd, late N.Z.A.N.S., is that she left hospital, where she had been a patient for a long time, in December, and was for a time trying country air with her sister, who was Plunket nurse at Timaru, to care for her. She' is now being sent to the sanatorium at Rotorua for treatment. Nurse Rangi Werita, who has been District Nurse at Otaki, has been granted leave by the Health Department to take her Infant Welfare training at Karitane Harris Hospital, was relieved by her sister nurse temporarily. Nurse Marjorie Hitchman, on the conclusion of her post-graduate course in Public Health work, has now taken over the Otaki District during Nurse Werita's absence. Nurse Helen Scott, who has just completed her post-graduate course, has been sent to relieve Nurse Mai Hodges as school nurse at Napier.

Sister Dot Smith, late of Waikato Hospital, who has been for a short time in England, had the honour of being selected from among English and colonial nurses to nurse Princess Maud in her recent illness. Nurse Isa McDonald has completed her midwifery training at Whangarei Maternity Hospital, and has now gone to Dunedin to take her Infant Welfare training at Karitane. Later she intends to go for a trip to England, where she hopes to get further experience. Nurse Uniack, who has just gone through the post-graduate course in Public Health, is being sent by the Health Department to relieve the school nurse at Nelson. Sister C. McMorland, R.N., R.M., of Nelson, has taken over the charge of Fellbridge Private Hospital. Wakefield. Sister Dorothy Hall, of Duncan Street Private Hospital, Raetihi, who has been staying with her parents in Nelson for several months to recuperate after typhoid fever, hopes to recommence work in November. Sister Theresa Butler, recently on the staff of Pukeura, spent her annual leave in Wellington prior to taking up work again in Nuie Island, where she spent two years previously. Miss L. Macdonald, Matron of the Kawatia Maternity Hospital, Westport. writes that she will shortly be leaving that institution. Miss Margaret Watt has come to Wellington from Wairoa, and has joined her sister in Brougham Street Private Hospital. Nurse Jessie Woolf , who has been nursing at Kensington Street Club, has gone to America. Mrs. Cory-Wright (Sister Isobel Maclennan) is now living at Goldie's Brae, Wadestown. Miss Kathleen Moore, trained at Auckland Hospital, has written from London to say she has been chosen, out of many applicants, for the position of Ward Sister at St. Stephen's Hospital, Fulham

Road. London. The Matron informed her she was chosen as she had always heard such good reports of New Zealand nurses, and also because of her testimonials and experience. Miss Blackie has resigned her position as Sister-in-Charge of the Otaki Hospital, and has gone down to Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer, for treatment. Miss A. Bentham, who left Dunedin three years ago to accept a private nursing appointment in India, returned in September. Miss Bentham said keen interest was shown in Plunket work and Karitane nursing in India, and representation for Government assistance in that direction had been made. Sister M. Hurley has left the Wellington Hospital, and is to be married to Mr. O'Gorman, of Wellington, in November. Nurse M. Tinkham has resigned from the staff of the Wellington Hospital. Sister Berry, who has completed her midwifery training at St. Helens, Wellington, has now been re-appointed a Sister at the Wellington Hospital. Miss Hazel Bentham, of Dunedin, has been appointed Matron of Dr. Doris Gordon's Private Hospital at Stratford. Sister Lloyd's many friends will be glad to know that after her serious operation in Hobson street Private hospital she has made a good recovery, and has now returned to her position as Matron of Hokitika Hospital.