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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1956Vol. XXVI, No.12

Samoan Nurse Returns Hom[?]

p. 166 · Read in the full issue

To Give Her Services

Saisului leriko, above, is the first qualified: nurse to return to Samoa under the NZ scholar ship system. She has been in New Zealand for over 10 years, arriving with the first! group of scholarship students to attend Wairarapa College. She did her nursing train-- '"9 Helen's Hospital in Wellington, and at Wellington Hospital where she passed her- State Examinations. After qualifying and serv-mg for a year as staff nurse she returned! to St. Helen s again to do a post-graduate course in midwifery. She then went to Otago to complete her Plunket training during the early part of 1956.