NEW ZEALAND NURSES AT THE FRONT.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2380, 9 February 1915, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND NURSES AT THE FRONT.

' Among the New Zealand nurses wno are either at the front lofc have gone Home to offer their services are the following, whose names are given in the nurses' journal "Kai.Tiaki." Some have already been mentioned, but there are others whose names will be neW to readers: — ■, ■ : \ . ; Miss May Palmer, Wellington flosr pital, who was the first to leave' New Zealand; Miss Laura Janies, Wellington Hospital, who is a member of Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service, and who is stationed in Rouen at No 12 General Hospital; Miss Berry, who is taanaging a temporary military hospital; Miss ■ Caroline Jones, trained Napier Hospital, who went Home at her own expense, and shortly after arrival was attached to Queen Alexandra's Reserve Hospital Ship: Mifls Lind, Wellington Hospital, wno is working in Rouen in the Hospital Hotel Dieu under the French War Office ar one. 0f... the French Flag Nursing Corps, in the unit sent from England; Miss HitfcHcock, Wellington Hospital, who is . also a member of the French Flag Nursing Corps and at the same hospital as Nurse Lind. These two nurses were in 'England when war. commenced; Miss Mary Wilson, "Dunedin, who went Home at ' her own expense, to offer "her services, Write a fortnight after arrival that'she hoped soon to get to work, and had put her jiame down at the Rod Cross Office; Mrs. Holgate, left in the lonic in;,Dev. cember; Misß K. Mills, Dunedin Hospital, is working at a hospital established specially, for the postal telegraph and telephone men, 20,000 of whom, are at the front, and is training; Miss Clare Jordan, Auckland, is at a voluntary hospital at Newbury, Kirtgsclere; Miss Christina Hunter is- at .the Mayfield and Heathfield V.C J>. Hospital, Sussex; Miss Ella Cooke, of Auckland Hospital,frho went Home last year with her sister, and was shortly , to return is," the "Kai Tiaki'' states, now abroad, but whereabouts, unknown; Mrs. Burbery,' late Nurse Soton, of Wellington, whose home-'is near Ascot, is working at' the Red Cross Hospital-there as a sister; Miss Greig, Wellington Hospital, left recently to offer her services, her expenses being paid by a lady who had been her patient; Miss Margaret D&l----rymple, Wellington, left in the lonic in Decembers Miss PUrcell, Wellington, left in December in the-RUahinar Miss Margaret Nixon, Timaru; Miss Bowie, Timaru; Miss Blackmore' -and Miss Eleanor Brown (Dunedin), all left in the ' Somerset in January to offer their serViiSs; Mifm Lefis, fOrhierly ; of Welling-, ton Hospital, is now at Dunkirk, where she has organised a hospital for the wounded; Miss Jeffrey, Wno is on duty With Indian soldiers.