Island Girls Now Training As Nurses
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- . NAPIER, April .6. In the past New Zealand had sent personnel to the Pacific Islands to teach Ihe people to look after their *owa health but a further stage had now been reached and nurses fron/ the • islands' were to be -brought to New Zealand for training, said Miss M. I. Lambie, Director of Nursing, when addressing the annual conference of the New Zealand Registered Nurses Association to-day. Miss Lambie added that some of these island girls1 were already in New Zealand. . . ! The Government had offered bursaries for 'nurses f rom Far4 Eastern countries to undertake post-graduate training in New Zealand, she -added. The first niirse to coihe under this scheme Avas a Malayan girl. Nurses from other countries who were receiving training in New Zealand included one'Indian and several Chinese. Miss Lambie advocated t'he formation of an international nursing group in the South Pacific and sai-d New Zeaian : should take the lead in its estabhsli- . ment. ^
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 April 1949, Page 9
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