PERSONAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4447, 3 May 1930, Page 3

PERSONAL

Mr. and Mrs. L. Bullard and fa 111 iIv leave for llimloria to-morrow

Air and Mrs K. G. Fairev leave to-morrow on a furl night’s holiday

Mr. N. Wisharl. left Eoxton on Tuesday to take up his position with Ihe P. and T. Stores Department in Wellington. At Thursday’s meeting of the, Eoxton Lunch Glnb the Chairman referred to the fact that Mr 11. E. Gnrbctl had given up Itis business to go farming and expressed pleasure that he was not loavmg Eoxlon. On behalf of the Glnb he wished him success in his new venture! and expressed 4he hope that be would still attend tin: Lunch Club meetings

Dr. T. If. A. Valintine, DirectorGeneral of Health, when speaking ai ■the Palmerston North Hospital yesterday, voiced his high appreciation of New Zealand nurses, who stood very high, he said, in the opinion of the profession throughout the Empire. During the war, New Zealand nurses wen: well reported upon as being equal to, if not better than the nurses of the other Dominions. He was scry promt of that, and he urged the nurses present always to live up Ip the traditions of the service.

It may not. he generally known that- there still lives in Palmerston North the first nurse of the public hospital. This is Mrs. Eleanor Marianne Eroustrom (then Nurse Tasker) and loud applause from lho gathering assembled at the Nurses’ Home yesterday on the occasion of the Health Minister's visit, greeted the announcement of her presence by the Hospital Board chairman.

“She did her duly nobly in those days,” added Mr. llonihlow, “and now is the mother of a family of nine children.” (Applause). “Where are they?" queried the .Minister, to which the chairman replied that they were all good citizens. Mrs. Ereusirom joined the hospital stall when it was lirsi opened, arriving i:. Palmers!on North on November lit. 180-1, received two years' training at Wellington hospital. She is a New Zealander, having been born a I Cisliurne. Thirty-three years ago she married Mr. C. \V. Ercnst mm, a ' well-known and liighlyn sported citizen n!' Palmerston N.