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To Nurse in Vietnam In February Miss Whaiatua Hapi, daughter of Waaka and Peggy Hapi and a member of the Tuwharetoa tribe left her job as senior theatre sister at Rotorua Hospital to spend a year as theatre sister at Qui Nhon Hospital in Vietnam. After leaving Queen Victoria Girls' College. Miss Hapi trained at Rotorua Public Hospital, graduated in 1963 and became a theatre sister. For a few months in 1967 she was Assistant Matron at a Jewish Home for the Aged, and from May to November attended the Waikato National Publicity Studios Hospital Board's Theatre Post-Certificate School, receiving training in all fields of surgery, theatre administration, teaching and supervising student nurses.

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Te Ao Hou, March 1968, Page 39

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To Nurse in Vietnam Te Ao Hou, March 1968, Page 39

To Nurse in Vietnam Te Ao Hou, March 1968, Page 39