Mr. Chamberlain delivered an excellent speech at the annual meeting
of the Colonial Nursing Association on Wednesday in support of the appeal for £3,000 needed to complete the endowment of the society. The object of the Association, which was started by Mrs. Piggott, an English lady recently resident in Mauritius, is to provide trained nurses for the small European communities scattered throughout our Empire, and although only three and a half years old, it has, as Mr. Chamberlain cheerfully testified, done such admirable work as to secure the heartiest approval of the Colonial Office. Some forty nurses have already been sent out, and several valuable lives have been saved, notably those of officers struck down with the terrible black-water fever in West Africa. The appeal was also vigorously supported by Mr. Asquith, and by Sir George Taubman-Goldie, who happily paraphrased Mr. Kipling's phrase by defining the work of the Association as part of the " white woman's burden."
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