HOSPITAL MATRON

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 12

HOSPITAL MATRON

INQUIRY AT WAIHI ,

DEPARTMENT'S DECISION

- A departmental inquiry is to be held into the Waihi Hospital Board's recent decision to terminate the services of the matron, Miss M. K. Stevenson. This decision followed an inquiry by the board into complaints made against the matron by members of the domestic staff.

This was the purport of a communication which was received from the Director-General of Health at a meeting of the board this week. In his letter, Dr. Watt stated that after careful perusal of the'report forwarded by the board dealing with the inquiry, he could not agree on the facts before him that the board was justified in dismissing the matron. At the same time, he did not consider that the matter called for public inquiry, 'as had been requested in several quarters, particularly by Miss Stevenson. He was arranging therefore, tot Dr. R. A.-Shore to visit Waihi at an early date to inquire more particularly into the circumstances of Miss Stevenson's dismissal. He trusted it would be appreciated by the board that a departmental inquiry was necessary, not only in the interests of the parties concerned, but in the interests of the future running of the institution; The inquiry would be held on March 28 by Dr. Shore, who would be accompanied by Mr. Yon Keiscnberg, secretary to the Department.

Mr. J. F. Robertson wanted to know if the matron had asked for a public inquiry (states the Waihi correspondent of the "Auckland Star"). The chairman, said he had been assured by the secretary that she had not. In face of Dr. Watt's statement it was difficult to understand the position. The secretary explained that probably Miss Stevenson's solicitor had mado the request. _.