LADY GODLEY'S WORK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2526, 29 July 1915, Page 3

LADY GODLEY'S WORK

FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED,

Some account of the Convalescent Home for New Zealand soldiers, organised by Lady Godley in Egypt, is given by Colonel Esson, A.Q.M.G., in a letter to the Defence Minister.

"Theftew Zealand Convalescent Home [ under the management of Lady Godley is a splendid little institution," he writes, "and Lady G'odloy, with a small staff, is doing great work in completing the cure of men discharged from hospital, who require rest and building up before they take the field- again. The home, which lias accommodation, for 30 patients, is established in a large and well-appointed building- on the seaside in one of the coolest and' best of Alexandrian suburbs. It has been very comfortably fitted up, and those who have been fortunate enough to be sent there very much appreciate their quarters and treatment. The owner of a large residence'adjoining the home has most generously placed it at Lady Godley's disposal for the use of sick and wounded "New Zealanders, and owing to the receipt of a large parcel of bedding, etc., from the New Zealand War Contingent Association in England, and donations in cash and kind from other sources, it . will be possible to practically double the oapacity of the present New. Zealand Convalescent Home with little, if any, additional cost to the Government.

"These homes are most necessary, as at this time of tile year life in Egypt under canvas or outside a stone building is almost impossible. Yesterday, even in Alexandria, it : was'lo9deg. in the shade, and the sick in the convalescent campis suffered a good deal. Ever since her arrival in-Egypt, Lady Godley .has taken a'very keen and sympathetic interest in our sick, and lias never spared herself when working "in their behalf. I have not met a more businoss-like member of the fair sex, nor one in whom tW faculty of management was so highl.v developed. Good discipline is maintained in the home, and it is cVident' that the management of the institution is dictated by the head as well as by the - heart. Tlie home ; is an immense success, an absolute necessity, and New Zealanders have mucli j'easojl vto.ibe .. grateful to their General's good : lady for what she lias undertaken to do on behalf of their boys,'instead of for_ England or some cooler place,-which is the course invariably followed during the summer by' all who can possibly get away."

K Miss Joan Sunderland (Poverty Bay) lias-fully qualified as a Red Cross .worker, .- and until last week she lield an important post, as organising head of a convalescent home for French soldiers at Puys, near Dieppe, writes a London correspondent early in June. She was assisted by other Red Cross workers and by a staff of French orderlies. In three months no fewer thaii 400 men' passed through' the home. Miss Sunderland has now been transferred to a military hospital at Hautj Maine, which is organised and managed by surgeons and nurses from England. Her brother, Mr.' M. L. Sunderland ("Duke"), after four months in King Edward's Horse, obtained a commission in the A.S.C., and is now Second Lieutenant, Motor Transport Division; lie expeots to go to the front shortly. Mi;. Geoffrey Sunderland, when war broke put,'.was-recalled.from Wells Theological College to ,his squadron in. King Edward's Horse,' and is now at the front; lie is lance-sergeant, 4th Troop, A Squadron.