HONOUR FOR A NEW ZEALAND NURSE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2413, 19 March 1915, Page 2

HONOUR FOR A NEW ZEALAND NURSE

DECORATED BY ICING ALBERT OF BELGIUM. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Havre, March 17. King Albert, of Belgium, has decorated Nurse Maunder, of ltangitikei, with tho Order of Leopold for her services to tho Belgian Army. Miss Dormer Maunder- went over to Ostend with a party organised by Lady Paget to open a hostel for Belgian lefugee women and children in the Kursaal, and it was immediately found nccessary to receive wounded Belgian soldiers instead. Miss Maunder was at the same time directing the affairs of the hospital in tho Hotel Continental, where there had also been a Budden urgent need for a resourceful woman's help. She was so successful in both itndertakings that when sho returned to England 6he was asked to establish a hospital for Belgian 6oldiers in Rouen. The request came especially from General de Selliers, the Inspector-General of the Belgian Army, the,man they call the Belgian Kitchener. Miss Maunder, who holds tile position of organiser and directress, has the help of a London solicitor, who acts as her secretary, and she has at present a staff of : ' four trained nurses—including to lier satisfaction, another New Zealander. Mrs. Patterson, who was trained at the Napier Hospital, who is doing a great deal of massage.