HAWERA HOSPITAL

MATRONS OF THE HAWERA HOSPITAL

Miss Tyers                                           1894

Miss Furlong                                        1903-1904

Miss Dunsford                                      1904-1907

Miss Clapcott                                       1907-1913

Miss G E Broad                                   1913-1920

Miss R Lockhead                                 1920-1926

Miss E M Nutsey                                 1926-1928

Miss C A Hunter                                  May 1929 - July 1935

Miss M J Fraser (Jane)                         August 1935 - August 1948

Miss E M M Simmers (Mary)               October 1948 - August 1951

Miss J M Kirkness (Jessie)                   August 1951 - August 1954

Miss D G Clark (Dorothy)                    October 1954 - January 1957

Miss J A Kilpatrick (Joan)                    January 1957 - March 1961

Miss E R Bradley (Rae)                        May 1961 - December 1966

Miss S Watts (Shirley)                          December 1966 - August 1969

Miss M I O'Dea (Molly)                       August 1969 - December 1975

Mrs K Brady (Katy)                             1976 - June 1979

Mrs A Brough (Ann)                            July 1979 - 30 June 1993

SOURCES

Hawera District Centenary by A P C Bromley

Registered Nurses Reunion Hawera Hospital 1 October 1983

EARLY REGISTERED NURSES

The first two nurses to gain their registration at Hawera Hospital were:

Miss Annie Isobel Cummings  (married Percy Russell Wilkinson 1903)

Miss L E Price (Mrs Cook)

This was in 1902.