MOUNTED NURSES
DOMINION’S FIRST UNIT HELPING OUTBACK AREAS (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) GISBORNE, Wednesday Believed to be the first unit of its kind in New Zealand, the Gisborne mounted auxiliary of the Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Association, began yesterday one week’s intensive training for work as mounted nurses. It is proposed that the new unit will act in concert with the home defence forces if the latter are called upon. The immediate objective, however, is to furnish the district with an auxiliary corps of women accustomed to riding and able to take care of themselves, and bring nursing assistance to patients in areas where medical and specialised nursing aid is not immediately available.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 9
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116MOUNTED NURSES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 9
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