NURSES' PARTY
LADY NEWALL PRESENT
The New Zealand Nurses' Christian Union held its annual party recently at the Nurses' Home, Wellington Hospital. The 1944 post-graduate nurses were^present The sitting-room was i beautifully decorated with .very lovely spring flowers, "and the • preliminary i nurses formed a guard of honour-for ncr Excellency Lady Newall,' who had consented to be present! .: -.:ii; i After a few. words of welcome from the president, 'Mrs. Bayldon Uweny her Excellency addressed/the large-gather-ing, telling, them of prevailing war conditions"in'the Home country antl of the cheerfulness, bravery, and-coura^e of th^e-carrying •on there. She also spoke-of the Star and Garter Home for disabled soldiers, with special- emphasis on the occupatidnartherapy'work done there. It was felt that this branch of work made a very special appeal to nurses. Miss Clarke, the matron, thanked her Excellency for her talk, and after tea was served Miss M. I. Lambie, O.BE. presented the post-graduate nurses, and Miss I. Willis, 0.8. E., the . military nurses, to her Excellency. Solos were rendered by Miss Bowie, accompanied by Miss Robertson,- both of the Wellington Hospital staff.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 8
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180NURSES' PARTY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 8
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