PLUNKET NURSE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 65, 22 September 1939, Page 5

PLUNKET NURSE

MISS STRACHAN farewelled gathering at rotorua On Monday afternoon members of the Rotorua Piunkct Committee met at tlie Blue Bath tearooms for afternoon tea to say farewell to Nurse N. G. Straehan who has been transfer•J red from the Whakatanc branch to Ihe Patea branch. Nurse Straehan has visited Rotorua sub-branch every Monday and Tuesday for several years and has been a most capable and conscientious nurse. Mrs J. president of the nwcly-ifonned Rotorua branch, in pre scnting Nurse Straehan with a beautiful bouquet of polyanthus and daffodils. referred to her splendid work done in the district and wished her every success in her new sphere. She added that the fact that a branch of the society, with a residential nurse, had been formed in Rotorua was largely due to the efforts Nurse Straehan in gaining the confidence of the mothers, and she hoped that mothers and committee would do their utmost to make the new branch a success. At a time like the present it was more needful than ever to care for the babies, the generation on whom would rest the responsibility of building up a saner and more peaceful state of society.