The Archives

• A history of the public hospital in Wellington+
  • The Children’s Hospital
  • Additions 1913 – 1939
  • Additions 1940 – 1960+
    • The Centenary Block
    • The Hospital Post Office
    • The Hospital in the 1950s
  • The Thorndon Hospitals
  • The first Newtown Hospital
  • Early expansion 1888 – 1910+
    • 1901 – 1906
    • 1907 – 1910
• The Early Staff of the Hospital
• Nursing Administration+
  • 1880-1920+
    • Mary Anne Baillie
    • Elizabeth Hermansen
    • Mrs Johanne M Thorpe
    • Mrs Bernard Moore
    • Ellen Dougherty
    • Augusta Godfrey
    • Mary E Kissling
    • Frances K Payne
    • Ellen Mary Pettit
    • Kate Marsden
    • Elizabeth Katherine Berry
    • Edith Crerar
    • Sarah Jane Hetherington ARRC
    • Elizabeth Williamina Inglis Stott
    • Jean Todd
    • Maggie Preston
  • 1921 – 1960+
    • Edith P Tennent
    • Gertrude S Lampp
    • Agnes Milne
    • Althea H Cookson
    • Florence E Hart
    • Blanche L Clark
    • Susan Milne
    • Noeline M Knight
    • Muriel E Tattersall
    • Kathleen G Hausmann
    • Doris Brown
    • Jessie I Martin
    • Irene Tolerton
  • 1961 – 1988+
    • Betty P Cook
    • Barbara J E Hough
    • Mavis H Paton
    • Gloria A Grattan
    • Elaine Whiteman
    • Barbara G Shadbolt
    • Maureen Corry
    • Assistant Principal Nurses
  • 1989 –+
    • Sheila Mahony
    • Anita Bamford-Wade
    • Cheyne Chalmers
    • Kerrie Hayes
    • Andrea McCance
    • Emma Hickson. 2019 – 2020
    • Associate Directors of Nursing

Mavis Helena Paton

Born Wellington 8 Oct 1919 — Died New Plymouth 15 Mar 2008

Trained as a nurse at Wellington Hospital from 1940; RN 1943

Staff Nurse, Wellington Hospital 1944

Tutor Sister, Wellington Hospital 1945–1948

Maternity Certificate, Alexandra Maternity Hospital

Diploma of School Nursing and Hospital Administration, PG School of Nursing Wellington 1952

Tutor Sister, Wellington Hospital 1952–1953

Principal, Central Nursing School, Fiji 1953–1955

Ward Sister, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney 1956

Medical Wards Supervisor, Wellington Hospital 1957–1958

Postgraduate nursing experience in England 1959–1962, including time as a Staff Nurse at University College Hospital, London

Chief Nursing Officer, St John Ambulance 1960–1969

Clinical Supervisor, Surgical Wards, Wellington Hospital 1962–1966

First Assistant Matron, Wellington Hospital 1966–1969

Matron, Wellington Hospital 1969–1971

Part-time Sister, Taranaki Base Hospital 1973–1983