Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3313

Deceased Persons' Estates.

PARTICULARS of the Estates of Deceased Persons which have been placed under the Charge of the Public Trustee for Management during the month of December, 1908.

Dated the 23rd day of December, 1908.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Regulations under “The Nurses Registration Act, 1901.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred upon me by section eleven of “The Nurses Registration Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations in respect of hospitals acting as training-schools for nurses:—

A general hospital shall be eligible for recognition as a training-school under the following conditions:—

1. The Matron or Superintendent of Nurses shall be a certified and registered nurse of the Dominion of New Zealand.

2. The curriculum of study shall be of not less than three years’ duration.

3. The nurse shall receive practical instruction in the wards of the hospital by the Matron, or her deputy, who must also be a certified and registered nurse.

4. Nurses shall attend a course of lectures on the subjects laid down in the syllabus for examination, delivered by duly qualified and registered medical practitioners and trained and registered nurses.

5. The course of lectures shall as nearly as possible be given at regular intervals during the three years of study, and the minimum number in each year shall be twelve for the first year, eighteen for the second year, and twenty-four for the third year.

6. An examination in elementary anatomy and elementary physiology to be held during the term of training after the end of the first year, to be arranged by the hospital authorities, and certificates of having passed that examination must be produced with application to sit for the final State examination at the end of the third year. The Registrar of Nurses reserves the right of approving the standard of this examination at any time, or of holding the examination in the smaller hospitals if he deems it advisable.

7. For State registration, candidates will be examined in general nursing, medical nursing, surgical nursing, and hygiene according to the syllabus issued. The examination will be written, oral, and practical.

8. A course of instruction in invalid cookery must be arranged for the pupil-nurses during their term of training by a qualified teacher approved by the Registrar of Nurses, and certificate of having passed a satisfactory examination in this course must also be produced with application to sit for the final State examination in nursing.

9. The hospital authorities shall yearly report to the Registrar of Nurses, on forms supplied by him for the purpose,—

(a.) The daily average of occupied beds during the year.

(b.) The names of the teaching staff.

(c.) The subjects of lectures and the number of lectures delivered in each course.

(d.) (1.) The names of the nurses attending lectures;

(2.) The date each nurse entered upon her studies; and

(3.) A certificate that she has attended at least three-fourths of the lectures delivered in each subject.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister for Hospitals and Charitable Aid.