Nurses Take To Hills
(From Our Own Correspondent)
SUVA, .Aug. 25.
More than 50 student nurses stormed from Lautoka Hospital just before midnight on Thursday and took to mountainous bush country after a dispute with their matron about time off to prepare for examinations. Police with dogs joined hospital staff in searching for the students on Friday and the Fiji Medical Department nursing superintendent flew 100 miles from Suva to Lautoka to assist.
After searching all day the students—Fijians, Indians and Chinese girls—were found angrily encamped on a mountain seven miles- from the hospital. They had spent the night shivering in tall grass.
The students returned to the hospital after medical officials said their complaint about inadequate time to study would be investigated.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31768, 27 August 1968, Page 6
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