SICK IN EGYPT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3995, 30 July 1915, Page 3

SICK IN EGYPT.

PROVISION FOR CONVALESCENTS LADY GODLEY’S HOLME. / By Telegra pi i—S»> 'cin 1 Gor rospon den t WELLINGTON, July 29. , Some account of the convalescent home,,.for New Zealand soldiers organised by Lady God ley in Egypt is given by Colonel Esson, A .Q.Ai.G., in a letter to the Del'en.'o Minister. “The New Zealand convalescent home under the management of Lady Godley is a splendid little imstitution,” lie writes, “and Lady Godley, with a small staff, is doing groat work iii. completing the cure of men discharged from hospital who require, rest and building up before they take tie: field aagiii. The home, which has accommodation for JO patients, is established in a large and well-appoint-ed building on the seaside in one of the coolest, and oust of the Alexandrian suburbs. It has been very comfortably fitted up and these who have been fortunate enough to he sent there very much appreciate their quarters and treatment. The owner of a large residence adjoining the home Inis most generously placed it at. Lady Godley’s disposal for the use of sick and wounded New Zealanders and, owing to the receipt of a hvge parcel of bedding, etc., from the New Zealand War Contingent Association in England and donations in cash and kind from other soiu'ccs. it will he possible to praiticaiiv double the capacity r.* Uie present New Zealand convalescent home with little, if anv. additions, cost to the Government. “These homes are most necessary, as at this time of the year lile in Egypt under canvas or outside n stone building is almost inipnrsi.ne. Yesterday even in Alexandria it was 109 Jog. "in fi-.o shade end tb“ sick m the convalescent camps suffered a good dee,!. Ever since their arrival in Egypt, Ladv Godley has taken a very keen arid sympathetic: interest m our sick and lias never spared horse 11 when working on Hi- ir hchall. I have not met a more business-like niembei of the fair sex, nor one in whom the faculty of jnaniigein'oit was so highly developed. Good disciplint- is maintained in the home and it is evident that the management of the msutution is dictated by the Head as vve as by the heart. The home is an immense success —an absolute necessity .—and New Zealanders have mu j 1 reason to be grateful to their General's good lady for what she has undertaken to do on behalf ol their boys, instead of leaving for England or" some cooler place, winch is the course invariably followed during tin 1 summer by all who can possibly get awa v.”