MAY BE UPSET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 282, 29 November 1938, Page 12

MAY BE UPSET.

OUTSIDE NURSING. EFFECT OF MEDICAL SCHEME. AN APPLICATION DEFERRED. The opinion that the Auckland Hospital Board should be caution* in any arranirenteute iiuidp affecting the outside uursiii" staff, as the whole system inijrht i>e up-et when the Six-ial Security Act came into furi'e. in April of next year. \vu* expressed at last evening's meeting of the board. The matter eroppeil up when a letter was received from the WellMonl branch of (he New Zealand KarincrV Union i In , hoard upon what, term , ' it v\..uld coiii-idi'r the appointment of a district ntir-o. It was stated that Wellsford »n» now a rapidly growing area, am! with m> resident doctor thereappeared to I.e an urgent necessity for the estahli-limpiit of a. nur*e, Mr. \V. A. Hi-hop said tliet while he realiri'd that the .".rantinjr "f the re-ijue-t might lead to requests from many other dHtriets. the expa n-ion of Wellffonl dining the pa>t five years had l>ee ii-Hclerahle, and lie thought that ■mill- con-iilerat i'Hi should be given to lite application.

The chilii num. Mr. Allan Moody, mow.] that the matter be referred to t'u- superintendent and the lady superintendent, who foiild cinfer with the member representins the district and report to the board. It might also be a ,-,.0 d idea for the board to viuit the di.-triet.

Dr. .r. P. rTa-tin.£r« thought help -.lioiild be if possible. Tt. was a srreat con-idation to peo|)le livinfj far iwa.v from ;i dfK-tor to know that there *wis H trained nurse handy.

The *uj*;re.*tion was made by a memI'pr that the fnrjlities available, at YVarkworth cou'.d be u*ed by resident*, .in the rood« weir- now in pood order.

The lady superintendent, Miss K. M. Xutsoy. tmh\ that up to four years there ruirl been n distri.-t nurse, but her time li;u] not br-en fully occupied, and thero had been a cli.~piito rejrnrdins the responsibility for payment of her" salarv.

"In April all ur arrangements rcfrarding nuiM-ng may be upset," eaid Mr. .1. Save-h. ".\ppnreiitly the matter is nut urgent, and could be deterred."

The chairman'* motion was earned