DISTRICT NURSING GUILD.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1870, 2 October 1913, Page 2

DISTRICT NURSING GUILD.

YEAR'S OPERATIONS. At a meeting of the Wellington Nursing Division, at which Mrs. Sefton Moorhouso presided, tho annual report and. balance-sheet were adopted. Votes of thanks were passed to all those who liavo helped to promote tho best interests of .the division.

'Tho committoo stated in its report that an offshoot of tho division had been formed at South "Wellington, with encouraging support from Mrs. ■ S. A. Rhodes. Notwithstanding the loss of a number of members through transfer, the senior Wellington division continued to bo a flourishing organisation. Hie total number oil tho. roll was 62. Interesting lectures had been delivered by Professor Kirk, ; Drs. Tolhurst, Agnes Bennett, and Platts-Mills, while Dr. Hamilton Gilmer again conducted tho annual re-examination. Nurses Sexton, Macandrow, and Walton ably illustrated various points set forth in the syllabus. . Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool was patroness in placo of Lady Islington.' Some of the nursing sisters took part in the annual demonstration of ambulanco work by tho St. John Ambulanco Association, assisted with the "Ambulajice Saturday" collection, co-operated with tho Potone Nursing Division ill a "first aid" demonstration, performed ambulance duties at tile Easter Carnival, attended tho mo-tor-cyclo sports at Trentham, and engaged in private nursing among friends and relations. Two.squads wero identified with tho inter-distriet 'ambulance competition last November, tho personnel of which was: Mesdames M. F. Baker and S. R. Gylos, Misses M. and E. Oakloy-Brown, E. Carroll,. A. M. Christian, E. Downard, K. Kelly, M. M'Lollan, M. and E. S., Patorson, A. Redmond, and J. Wilson. Tho squad in charge of Miss Wilson ufas successful in seouring the silver rose boivl for the Wellington Nursing. Division. Miss M. Oakley-Brown and Mrs. S. R. Gyles respectively secured'first and second placo in. the individual competition, winning the gold and silver medals awarded by tho brigade.