NURSES’ PAY
Sir.—lf nurses' pay must be increased when are Karitane nurses going to be paid something? I wonder how many realise that these girls, while training, receive no wages, provide their own uniforms, and. until recently, paid to be taught. Yet they also do the same work as nurses, work six full days a week, and have no public holidays or time off in lieu of them. The Plunket system is established from the top of New Zealand to the bottom, yet it is still voluntary. On a government basis the girl who has to earn her living and would choose this career has a chance to take it up—not just the daughters of the rich, who seldom practise their training. Until these nurse* are paid
wages comparable with other careers for girls, there will be an even greater shortage of this important and necessary nurse.—Yours, etc.. COME INTO LINE June 6. 1956
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27989, 8 June 1956, Page 15
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