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MENTAL NURSES. In December the usual examination was held for the registration of mental nurses, when the following passed :— Auckland : First Grade —Edith Elizabeth Parkerson, Madeline Mary Ryan. Second GradeStanley Harry Baulcomb, Rodger Beattie, Blanche Brunskill, Matilda Lucy Cowen, Jeannie Crawford, Margaret Mary Healy, James Kinnear, Robert McAuley, Joseph Aloysius McGeown, George Markham Mansfield, Samuel Patterson, Thomas William Ramsay, William Familton Renner, William Henry Taggart, Hilda Elizabeth Vint, Charles Oscar Vollmer, Clarence Peter Walker. Tokanui: First Grade —James Colin Verner, Zoe Doris Worth. Second Grade —Thomas Sherrid Bond, William James Bruce, James Crawford, Doris Hazeline Grace Mills, Henrietta Page, Victoria Tunbridge, Charles William Yerner. Porirua : First Grade —Frank Hustler. Second Grade —Florence Elizabeth Andrews, George Frederick Armes, John Herbert Cole, Thomas William Cox, Fred Foster, Leonard Jacques, Mavis Mooring Leitch, John Joseph McGinn, Mary Agnes McGlynn, Neil Murray, John Philip, Ethel Rusbatch, Janet Rutherford, Lavinia Ryan, Arthur James Thompson, Herbert Morris Tweedie. Christchurch: First Grade —Annie Gibson, Rebecca Violet May McConnoohie. Second Grade —William Barron, Lydia Mary Elliott, Flora Jean McLennan, Charles Milne, Una Rose Pawson, Grace Alfreda Adeline Watson. Nelson: First Grade —Margaret Ann McDonald Boyd, Roslie Madge McLean. Second Grade —Ernest Ashton, Harold Dickinson, Mary Eileen McAnulty. Clifton Basmore O'Malley. SeaelifE: First Grade—Ezma May Gibb, Linda May Salton. Second Grade—Eoin Campbell Coutts, Constance Maud Haines, Elizabeth Maude Haywood, Isabella Allison Hood Owens. Hokitika : Second Grade—Minnie Elizabeth Armstrong, Mary Nolan Dale, Veronica Edith May O'Brien, Jessie Isobella Sherriff, George Arnold Thomas, Thomas Frederick Trotter. Highest marks in written paper : E. E. Parkerson, Auckland, 77. Highest total marks for written oral, and practical: Margaret A. Boyd, Nelson, 261. (Average, 87.)

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