N.Z. NURSES FOR THE FRONT
9 ■ . I WAR OFFICE ACCEPTS SERVICE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, January 28. The Hon. James Allen, Defence Minister, interviewed by a "Star" reporter to-day, supplied the following communication from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor: "Your telegram of January 7 communicated to the Army Council, who desire me to express thanks for the offer made, and to say they have pleasure in accepting the offer ■ provided the nurses are available for service whenever required, and not only for duty with the New Zealand troops. Nurses should be fully t/ained for three years in a jjeneral hospital, and should have certificates of efficiency from' the matron under whom they were trained and under whom they last served. The maximum limit age !b to be 45. They should be guaranteed by the New Zealand Government, and sent over with a responsible matron to look after them in this country until their services can be utilised." The nurses employed in the military hospitals in Egypt are Europeans (this last statement Tefers to the question raised by a deputation to Mr. Allen aB to reports that New Zealanders were being nursed by Arab nurses).
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2371, 29 January 1915, Page 6
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199N.Z. NURSES FOR THE FRONT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2371, 29 January 1915, Page 6
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