New Zealand Nurses’ Christian Union

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 11

New Zealand Nurses’ Christian Union

ANNUAL MEETING HELD. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Nurses’ Christian Union was held in Wellington on Friday evening, when a report was read by Miss J. Banison, South Island secretary, and a short address given by Mrs. Tythc Brown, the retiring president. Dr. Gordon Anderson was in the chair. Miss Samson’s report showed an inefeaso of 103 members in the N.C.U., making a grand total of 1200. New groups have been formed at Blenheim and Gore, and a scattered nurses’ group started in Oamaru. The financial position was satisfactory, the balance-sheet showing a credit balance of £3O. Miss Bamsou said that notable throughout the year had been tho feoling of cooperation and goodwill between the Nurses’ Christian Union and other youth movements in the Dominion. A pleasing factor in the present conference was that all denominations were lepreseuted, which augured well for the future. Bho hoped that the conference would result in renewed consecration for all. Mrs. Tytlie Brown, retiring president, who has been closely connected with the N.C.U. for many years, welcomed Miss E. Williams, of Havelock North. Miss Williams (who is a granddaughter of Rev. Henry Williams, a pioner settler of New Zealand who lauded here in 1522), founded the movement in 1922, and found a ready response from many nurses who had been praying for the inception of such an organisation. Mrs. J. Carswell, missionary secrotary, gave a report of tho mission nurses’ activities, and read greetings from nurses in far-off parts o? .the world. The Dominion executive was tifocted as follows:—President, Mrs. Bayldon Ewen; vice-presidents, Misses A. Cookson, J. Bicknell, M. Lambie, Mrs. Tythc Brown, Drs. Gordon AndcrsOft, J. Laird, G. Kemp, and Ulrie Williams; Dominion secretary, Mrs. J. B. 1. Cook; Dominion treasurer, Mrs. O. R. Ro'bieson; mission secretary, Mrs. J. Carswell; committee, Misses Arnold, Templeton, D. Milne, B. Clarke, Ferris, F. Cleary, R. Bridges, F. Bcott, M. Keri, J. Aitken, McGregor, Brandon, Wall, Preston-Thomas, W. Manning, Mrs. O. B. Gaby, and Revs. L. J. Boulton Smith, R. Gardiner, and N. F. Robertsliawe.