SPANISH NURSING PARTY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 5

SPANISH NURSING PARTY

-Fresa Asaociation.)

Experiences of N.Z. Sisters On Voyage SOME WRONG IDEAS

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr. E. W. Hunter, secretary of tho Spanish Medieal Aid Committee, Dunedin, has received a letter from Sister Shadbolt, leader of the New Zealand Nursing Division. The letter deserdbes the voyage of the Mooltan ais far as Fremantle and discusses the interest taken in various parts of Australia in Spanish relief work. Sister Shadbolt says that the secretary of the Spanish Relief Committee in Sydney wrote telling the New Zealand party that 6ince their visit funds hai inereased confciderably. Over £2000 had been collected in Australia for a nursing unit. They had not troubled about sending out any further medieal assistance as the chief worry appeared to be purchasing food for Spanish people. While en route from Sydney to Melbourne, according to Sister Shadbolt, "some fool of a man told Mts. Shar* plea that the Mooltan had been bombed two trips ago (a plane flew overhead when paeoing the Bay of Biscay), and he thought that the publicity we are getting was imperilling the safety of the other passengers. Most amusing, but I would like to meet the gentleman personally." In another part of her letter Sister Shadbolt says, "So many people still seem to think that we are being sent over by the Governmen^ and cannot understand it, as Britain still profesees non-intervention. ' ' She briefly mentions entertainments throughout Australia in honour of the New Zealand party and the attendance at numerous meetings and lectures in connection with Spanish relaef.