Letters in Brief

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 231, 26 June 1931, Page 11

Letters in Brief

Criticising the decision of the W anganui Hospital Board that nurses do not need one day off in seven, a correspondent. ‘•Modern,” challenges the board to publicly state how it is in the nurses best interests that they should not have one holiday a week. Nurses only a few years ago, he adds, were compelled to scrub floors and do the general cleaning of the hospital, and an attempt to confine their duties to the attending of patients was opposed on the grounds of expense. Lie correspondent suggests that it would be no easy matter for the board to justify before the Arbitration Court then-de-cision that nurses should work every day in the week, and advises the nurses to organise into some guild or association and appear to the court, * * * “I have been thinking,” writes “J.C.,” “that one way in which we could assist in the abolition of war would be to adopt the gentle art of “freezing, tjiat cveiy Englishman is an adept in that is to say, that every loval British subject who is not in favour of abolition of war would be immediately “frozen up, mueh > n the same way as any man (whether British or not.) is frozen up who does not take off his hut. when the National Anthem js being played or sung. 1 think if this idea once became popular it would have a good effect.” ♦ • ♦ “One Who Would Like to Know” writes: —“One wonders at the action of the Taranaki Education Board in appointing to a school a married woman teacher, when there are so many unmarried teachers with no work to do. Many girls have received practically no salary this year, and all their applications are turned down, in snite of good grading. What are they to do? Their own board cannot or will not help them, and it is becomini a. razr rtrlou® problem.