OVER 100 NURSES GO EVERY YEAR

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 25, 2 December 1938, Page 5

OVER 100 NURSES GO EVERY YEAR

Steady Overseas Drain Incrensed By South Afet can Demand

oinetnent z id motropeliiaa uewsenr Vy ads vollows: Taenty wires Ure required for « gaierniiy «and general Hespiiad tn Beuth Ajrica Applicants must be prepared fo seid Frou. New B2ae fap at Ieter liken Deecen .er 6. 7208, Wellington soon buezed with ruiaonrs. Ti was sven fe al y definite that tho avneal fev nurses was mado by Dr, Camphell -nown New Sealand doctor, and formerly leades Of the now anciibuad New Zealord Legicn, Reports stated that he was attached to a large hospital in Jonannesbure, It was allegSd that Ba hervotal hed been started in uth Afvier by some wealthy men _ or three years ago end had been Pun ot 2 aveat loss, and that it was mow beings reorganisod, Hes ‘pital was said to be a sevenstory Haliding, equipped with 150 io 20e eds. Prcsaee money to a maximum "of £80 wns offered to i3 Sone in the aavortisoment. v sr Rumours in last week aaid that there had viveudy been 300 applications, Probably 153 applicaHens would be naarver the mark. qt 3 WES said ¢ wt the whole of th Bowen Sirect hospital stat from maivon cewn had applied. The *Record"’ learned that this was a ‘wholesele exageceration., As fara the matron knews, on'y one nurse from the ‘Bowei, Street staf ' applied. Director of the Nuvsing Division of the Depariment of Health, Miss K. Lambie, told the "Reeord"? she head no official knowledge. of the venture. Negotiations fer the

nurses were helng made privately, not through the denartment. Ai tne same tise, she had rescived inquirics from nurses all ovar the Dominion ahous the schen na. She had rssiied ihat she knew nothing about it. Nex ¥ Zealand nurses do well in privet 8 DRursing in Seuth Africa, she said, aparece from their zseneral efictoney, bacamze they hare no eclour projudice. They tlo not 3 jest to nursing raul people and = q Ten tov ie! Wew Zealand nurses utd Sone t Bou Africa independ ily las ESAS conate! ‘3 made a cop dvain’on New Sealand nerszos, Aoril L and the end of

June last, 75 New Zealand nurses had gone to Anstralia. any would come baek, of course. She estimated that 166 to 150 left New Zealand for. overseas each year, "Tt is a greut less to New Zealand," said Miss Lambie, "but nothing to Go with conditions or salaries or hours of work. It is just the urge to see the world."