THROUGH MAIDS’ QUARTERS

Evening Star, Issue 20029, 21 November 1928, Page 10

THROUGH MAIDS’ QUARTERS

HOSPITAL HORSES OUT AFTER HOURS THE AUCKLAND INQUIRY {Pkr United Pkess Association’.J AUCKLAND, November 20. The case of Nurso E. A. Blackio, who was dismissed from tho hospital staff by a special committee appointed by the Auckland Hospital Board for sending a letter to u prisoner at _ Mount Ecfon Gaol who had been a patient, in which letter was an indiscreet reference to tho lady superintendent, was again considered by tho board to-day, and after somewhat heated discussion, lasting an hour, it was decided that tho nurse should appear before the board at a special meeting next Monday, so that tho board might hear what she had to say in defence. Tn a letter to the board die nurso said: “ I admit that my letter was most Indiscreet, but I think that to have my character and my career destroyed, arid to be dismissed at a moment’s notice, is too severe a punishment for what 1 have done.” Mr M. Laing, member of the board, said he did not think it was the board’s business to whom the girl wrote, so long as she did her work. In his opinion she should only have been punished for being out late. The Chairman (Mr W. Wallace) said all the nurses were, in the habit of coming in late. Discipline must bo maintained. Miss Blackio said in her letter that the matron was “going soft.” A Member; Perhaps she meant softhearted. (Laughter.) Tho Chairman added that nurses'wore actually getting in through tho mauls quarters, and climbing over their beds. If they allowed this it would bo the end of discipline. Regarding the statement of Miss Blackio that she had been dismissed without her wages, those had not been collected by her, and were waiting for her. Tho resolution to hear the nurse was then carried