N.Z. NURSES AT THE FRONT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3988, 22 July 1915, Page 4

N.Z. NURSES AT THE FRONT.

AN INTERESTING LETTER. liv T’<.]c<rrai;h —Himma 1 Correspondent. AUCKLAND. July 21. In a h-finr from Heliopolis to her parents (Mr. and .tie. C- iv. Cock-. of \’ietoria Avenue, Ermuora). Si~t/ r Elsie Cooke, who was one of the twelve. New Zealand nurses who left with the Australian forces, says:— “We could do with 100 New Zealand. nurses and 50 masseuses here. j and yet I suppose people are still say- ' ing that the first 50 were only taken las a compliment to the Dominion. 1 ; wish some of the girls woo wi-.n _ty i heJji would come over here and visit I the men in the hospitals. They nav>- ! so few visitors and do so love to sc—- \ New Zealanders. We got thre—--1 heartv cheers and no end oi an ovaj xion 'whem wo went on duty in tiei rink- Poor fellow-1 you feel you ean- | not do enough' for them in return for j what they did at the- Dardanelles, j Four oi the New Zealand ntirs*.- wero ’ sent hack to Suez to fit- up the M ii- ; loc-hra for t:.e returning wounded. , They were Sisters Scott, Rose. Fitzj gibbons, and myself.” ! Aiks Cooke describ'd the prepara- ; tion on board the W lliochra. and rej ferred further to the men themselves, of whase bravery and fortitude she could not speak too highly.