N.Z. NURSES OVERSEAS
“Some Unable To Get Home”
(N Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. Nov. 17. There were many hundreds of New Zealand nurses overseas and some had not enough money to get home, said the Minister of Health (Mr Shelton) during the discussion of the Health Department estimates in the House of Representatives today. “We will have an immediate look to see if we can get some of them back," he said. The question of salaries was not the whole answer to the shortage of nurses, for nursing training was a passport to overseas travel. Nine hundred nurses in training were last last year and no scheme of salaries could stop the natural instinct that led nurse trainees to get married, said Mr Shelton. The service was short of 420 mental hospital nurses alone.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29674, 18 November 1961, Page 2
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