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♦ ■- WELLINGTON, Dec. 7. "They are a very fine lot indeed," said the Director Genei-al' of Mental Hospitals, Dr. R. G. Gray, after meeting on the Rangitiki 36 nnrses from Great Britain who have been • allotted to mental hospitals ifi. New Zealand, being the third group under the recruiting Seheme commencbd recently. Three of them will go to Avondale hospital, 12 to Porirua, nine to Sunnyside and 12 to Seacliff. Dr. Gray deplored the need for such /ecruiting from overseas which he eonsidered the result of the. ignorance of young women in New Zealand of the conditions and requirements of work. He mentioned that his own daughter, after three years' training, had now qualilied for h'er State final examinafcloiis in lneutal nursing0
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 December 1946, Page 3
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