NURSES' SALARIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 141, 13 June 1912, Page 6

NURSES' SALARIES.

' PROPOSAL FOB, ___?o_Mn* , .0 REDUCTION IN AUCKLANDI 1 The question of nurses' salaries 1 discussed by members of the AucktaJ ' Hospital Board this morning, when » ■ letter was read from the Otago 1 Board suggesting the desirability of bay- " mc a uniform set of salaries for iraws ■ hospitals of the Dominion. A re ■ quest was preferred for a list of salaries . paid to nurses in tbe Auckland hospitau 1 The honorary staff responded.that ,U» ' medical committee favoured uniform ssi- ' aries, but they were not in &™ w °\* ! decrease in the salaries paid at ~»e • a _he chairman (Mr H. Schofield) said ' that the Otago 'Board was apparently somewhat concerned about a nigaer se , of salaries prevailing at the Auckland 'hospital than at the Otago institution -He mentioned in passing that there were - a larger number of nurses in proporrre to the number of beds at theAntona ! hospitaH than at any similar mstitonon in the Dominion. -,■ « ' Tbe. chair_an of the honorary Stan • (Dr Pahst) remarked that the OWS? •Board admitted that their nurses din nu ■ work eight hours per day accoram. »<J ' I regulation. ~,.. It was resolved: "That the committee ■ recommend to the Board that it » de- ■ sirable to adopt a uniform set oi *w aries, but that no reductions should-«? ' made-in Auckland." ' Winter eights in satisfaction *g* ;__, now in oSr selection. The qM 5-_3de, fit, and price are unsurEasS-O, _ j^3^_ g __j?__r3_-.-»^