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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 6

tend him free of charge, and a nurse could be found, to devote an hour or two hours a day to nursing such troopers, who certainly would not bo able to afford: £3 3s a week for attention. Such nursing volunteers would be given to understand that they would have to give their services free whenever they were called upon to do so. They would! select a class of people whose- names would be sufficient guarantee of bona tides. Nursing was not a fashionable pastime; it was a reality. If they did not do something as he suggest eel. they would find women poking in and out of houses doing more harm than. good. It was to guard the sick that lie made the suggestion. They should give the ladies of Gisborne the Chance which every woman seeks —to tend the wounded. He was not asking for the adoption of his suggestion, but that a committoe should he set- up to draw up rules. He moved that Dr. Kaihlenberg, Miss Godfrav, the chairman, Dr. Reeve, Air. Humphreys,.,and the mover lv; appointed a committee to take into consideration the suggestions made an.tl report to the- Board. The mot-ioir was' carried unanimously.