AWARDS FOR NURSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 7

AWARDS FOR NURSES

PRESENTATION OF MEDALS CHAIRMAN URGES ECONOMY Tho presentation «*f medals to nurses ot the Auckland Hospital who had qualified in the Dominion and local examinations took place at a social afternoon at the Nurses’ Home yesterday. Air. W. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, presided. Mr. Wallace made special reference to /Nurse Venie Dawes, who headed the list in the State examination, and tied for second place in the Auckland examinations. Miss Dawes later intends to take up mission nursing in the Solomon Islands. ' The gold medal for the local examinations was won by Nurse AT. Jackson. “At the present time we are having an economy campaign,” said Air. Wallace, “and I wish to impress upon the nurses in training the importance of eliminating extravagance in the wards. No one can effect economies without the co-operation of the nurses*botli in the wards and in the home that is provided for them.” lie appealed to the nurses to reciprocate the work that had been done for them by Miss E. M. Nutsey. the lady superintendent of the nursing staff. HOSPITAL DAY In future, a Hospital Day will be held throughout the Dominion on May 12, tho anniversary of the birthday of tho famous Florence Nightingale, and this day will be the occasion of the annual prize day. Miss E. M. Nutsey, A.R.R.C., pinned on the medals won by the leaders of the Auckland examinations as follows: First’prize, gold medal. Nurse Dorothy M. Jackson; second prize, gold and silver medals. Nurse Venie A. Dawes and Nurse Jessie G. Watson. The Mayoress of Auckland. Mrs. A. D. Campbell, presented the medals to those who qualified in the Dominion examinations, as follows: Nurses Venie A. Dawes. Marjorie Peacocke, Esther Levin, Gwynne Witherow, Hazel Munro, Rachel Glover. Mabel Cooper. Vera Dodd, Rita Matheson, Elsie Ruke, Phyllis O’Meara, Ethel Cooper. Mabel Rexton, Mary Millington. Edith Wilson. Edith Piggott, Dorothy Kain, Louisa Kain. Kathleen Muller. Mavis Buckingham, Muriel Lindsay. Edna Jarman also qualified, but will receive her medal next year, as she is not yet old enough to do so.