New Zealand.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 80, 8 April 1915, Page 5

New Zealand.

FAREWELL TO THE NURSES. Per Press Association. Wellington, April 8. The nurses who are- leaving to-day received a number of farewells, the principal one being by members of the local branch of the Nurses Association. Each nurse received from the Association an electric torch, and the Mayoress presented them with fountain pens. Badges designed for the occasion were presented by the Premier, and they will remain permanent badges of this service in the Dominion. The emblem is a fretted medallion, centred by a Geneva Gross, with a silver fern leaf on either side,-and the letters N.Z.A.N.S. NURSES LEAVE BY ROTORUA. Wellington, April 7. Fifty nurses, who are to go to the front under arrangement with the Imperial authorities, left by the Rotorua for London to-day. They had a great send-off, a number of buildings being decorated. A large crowd was on the GlasgQw Wharf, and there was much cheering as the vessel moved off shortly after noon. Sir Joseph Ward addressed the nurses on the wharf, and on behalf of the Patriotic Society presented Miss McLean, Assistant Inspector of Hospitals, who is in charge of the party, with a bouquet. Jupp's band played a number of airs at the vessel's side.