HOSPITAL PORTERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 271, 29 August 1935, Page 6

HOSPITAL PORTERS

THE QUESTION OF MARRIAGE.

(Special to Die “ Guardian.”)

CHRIST CHURCH, Aug. 28

If members of the single men’s staff at the Christchurch Hospital choose to many it practically means retiring from their positions, according to the Hospital Committee’s decision, which was endorsed at this morning’s meeting of the Board. “The staff of porters at the hospital has, for many years, consisted of a certain number of single men ‘living-in,’ and others, married/ men, ‘living-out.’ ” stated the Hospital C ommittee’s report, “these being paid at an hourly rate. Recently three of the men ‘living-in have married and there is no opportunity of finding work for them on the out-door staff. “It has l»oen decided that it is imperative that the rule ‘that a certain number of porters shall be single men,’ must he enforced, and the committee desires to receive the board’s approval that if the men on the single men’s staff choose to marry, it practically means retirement from the hospital staff, as it is not desirable that men should live in the hospital whilst endeavouring to keep a wife outside on a single man’s wage.” The report was adopted.