SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2431, 9 April 1915, Page 2

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Farewell to the Nurses. Such an occasion as the departure from Wellington .yesterday by the Kotorua of the fifty nurses which New Zealand is. sending for service abroad would not fail to bring large numbers of people down to the wharf to wish them well, for the occasion was a very memorable one. Although many New Zealand nurses are already taking their share in the work of tending the wounded and the sick in Europe tlbis was the first occasion in which a body of nurses of any considerable number has been officially sent bv the Government for work abroad and to many of those on the wharf their departure struck a strong personal note and brought the war a little nearer still. The weather was perfect—and it is rather pleasant to think that the memory t'he nurses will carry away with them of ifhis country will perhaps be a picture of it as it was yestorday, bathed in bright sunshine with hardly a cloud to dim tie brightness of the skies, a land- that was an embodiment of peace and prosperity. As the hocr drew near for sailing; t'he nurses who. were gathered on the wharf went on board, with some difficulty making their way _ through thronged passages. On all sides they received numberless good wishes and were burdened with flowers, books, chocolates, and various pleasant little comforts for the voyage. Finally the last bell sounded and to the accompaniment of cheers (and tears) and the strains of "The Girl I Left Behind Me'," sounds that brought a smile to some who had not felt like smiling a moment before, just because of its curious reversal of things, the great steamer moved slowly out from the wharf, the long streamers oi patriotic coloured ribbons which the nurses from on deck shared with those oil the wharf below prolonging for a ftw seconds slight but tangible links with thoso they were leaving behind them. Numbers of wellknown people, including some of the Ministers of tho Crown, were present to wish the nurses well, and Miss Maclean, the matron in . charge, was the recipient of a very lovely bouquet of cactus dahlias. For the Belgian Fund. A sale of home-made produce, arranged ■by Mrs. J. M'Lean and her daughter, was held at the residence of Mrs M'Lfean's sisters, the Misses Morton, of Golder's Hill, on Wednesday afternoon. The proceeds, which realised the sum of £75, are to go to the Belgian Funds. Included among the ar|iolos which were for sale was a large variety of basketware, for which there is always a demand, also homemade jam, sweets, and cakes, toys, flowers, and pot plants. Tea-cup reading by Mrs. Burton was in keen demand, and among other helpers were Mrs. Fulton, the Misses Chapman, and Saunders. Mrs. Massey was auiong those who attended the 6ale. The Crown Prlnoess Cecllle. A message from Berlin states that the German Crown Princess lias been accouched. of a daughter, —Press Association, Mrs. Bassot-t (Christohuroh) is visiting W daughter,. Mrs. IS. W. Payton, in. Masterton. Dr. Pe&rce Baldwin. Chief Medical Officer of the Cook Islands, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Baldwin, are visiting Christchurch. They, will sail by the first mail steamer for Rarotonga. The next cruise of the Southern Cross (the Melanesian mission steamer) commences on April 16. when she will leave Auckland to follow her usual itinerary, New Hebrides, and Solomon Islands. Several missionaries who have been on furlough return by the steamer, among them being: Mr. and Mrs. Durrad, who are returning to Vnreas, Banks Island, and the Rev. G. K Moir, who returned by the lonio after spending a year in visiting England, and who will now resume work in Florida, Solomon Islands. . Miss Dora de Renzi (Cliristchurc'i), who is staying at Qrmsby, St. Michael, in Norfolk, was in the track of the Zeppelin raid last month. One of the Zeppelins dropped a bomb in a field opposite the house at which she was staying. Fortunately nobody was hurt. Orinsby is within a few miles of Yarmouth. Miss de Renzi was in Belgium during the early days of the war. "The Tablet" states that on St. Patrick's Day there took place at St. Dominick's Priory the ceremony of reception at which Miss Mary Ellen Dillon (Ireland) in religion Sister Mary Peter Clauer, received the Holy Habit of the Order. His Lordship Bishop Verdon officiated, assisted by the Rev. Father Buckley. • Mrs. Royd Garlick returns to Wellington to-day from Auckland. Only a very faint echo of the threatened "military" fashions seems to have reached Auckland, judging by the display 011 the lawns on Saturday at Ellersiie, says an exchange. The keynote of the coming winter fashions is generally sounded at the Easter race meeting, and the general tendency seems to be to avoid bright colours and to wear navy blue. The prevailing mode, if it has a slight "military" tendency, is that of Russia. , Mrs. Gordon (Hawke's Bay) is staying at the Empire Hotel. Mrs. P. M'Laren (Masterton) and tho Misses M'Laren are staying at the Empire Hotel. 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Record Climb of Egmont. On Easter Monday, Misses J. Tomlinsou and 15. Gilkinson, of Nelson, did some record mountain climbing. The,v left the North Egmont Hostelry at 5.10 a.m., accompanied by Guide Upson, reaching the summit at 9.10 a.m., where the.v lunched 4nd rested. A start was then made for Dawson Falls House, a descent of two thousand feet over ico being made on to Fantham's Peak. From there onwards the party lost no time .and reached the Falls House at 1.30. At 2.30 the last long tramp of (5J miles was commenced, and the end was reached at the North Egmont Hostelry at 5.40. This is said to bo tlio first time that any ladies have ever made tho round trip, and under similar ice conditions it certainly would be .hard to do in better time. The weather was perfect for climbing, and a clear view was obtained of all the towns in eastern and southern Taranaki. Those who have made the climb would realiso tho beauty of the sceno that could bo obtained under such conditions from the top._ The following reached the top during the Easter time:—Misses Thomson, Winfield, Ambury, Ray (New Plymouth), Foley (Wellington), Mrs. Kensington (Palmerston), also, among others, Messrs." Payne (New Plymouth) twice, Ward, and Mussoii. Women's Hospital Unit In Serbia. The heroic death of Miss Elizabeth Ness Ross, M.8., Ch.B., while ministering to the sufferers m the Serbian Army, serves to remind ns of the splendid work which she and other medical women and nurses are doing in that country in the midst of dangers and difficulties (states a writer in "The Queen"). It was shortly before Christmas tliat the Federation of the Scottish Women's Suffrage Sooieties (National Union) sent out a complete hospital unit to Serbia. A considerable sum of money was required in order to •equip the unit and send it out, but since its arrival it has been maintained by the Serbian Government. Not long after the arrival of the unit at its headquarters. Kraguievatz, accounts reached friends at home of the terrible conditions which prevailed and of the maladies, including typhus and typhoid fever and smallpox, which were rife. The unit of thirty women had a •hospital of 250 patients assigned to it, and the doctors and nurses wore overwhelmed with work. Writing in a recent number of the "Common Cause," one of the medical wou en, Dr. Soltau, said, "The trouble now is the terrible number of cases of fever." In one town alone there were over 3000 cases of fever, and there were "nothing like enough physicians. " Dr. Soltau sent word that many more medical women and nurses were required, and that'the Serbian Governm >nt was prepared to pay the women doptjrs their fares and a salary. Bofore the message was in print Miss l?oss had already (on February 14) fallen a victim at Kraguicvatz t<? the fearful malady of typhus. She was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. D. A. Macßoan Ross, Commercial Bank managev, London, and of Mrs. Rpss, of Craigdanod, Tain. She took her medical degrees at Glasgow University, having also studied in Berlin and' Dublin. She had obtained tho certificate of the London Society of Tropical Medicine, and was a Fellow of the Society of Tropical Medicine The value of the work which medical women are doing for the armies of the Allies' has been further emphasised by the tribute paid to it by Surgeon-Gen-eral Sir Alfred Keogh, who has asked Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson on her re-' turn from the hospitals in Paris and Wimereux to take charge of a military hospital of 500 beds :n this country. In Cambridge, where women are still prevented from taking medical degrees, the forces of prejudice are being actively combated by the Master of Downing, Dr. Howard Marsh, F.R.C.S., who is a staunch friend of women's progress. Mr. and Mrs. Juless, who have been visiting Mrs. S. Williams, at Oriental Hay, left by the Mokoia for Sydney yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. S. Williams, who is leaving to visit her daughter Mrs. Ncwlands. The last sale of Sir. W. M. Jackson's begonias for the benefit of the Belgian Funds takes place in Messrs. Harcourt's rooms this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Tho last two sales realised £2 10s., and the blooms sold at the Johnsonvillo Show brought in £1. So far, from the sale of blooms, the sum of £3 10s. has been realised. Mrs. H. Hamlin (Auckland) is visiti ing her mother, Mrs. Cameron, Cole Street, Masterton. 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