PLUNKET SOCIETY

Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 5

PLUNKET SOCIETY

MISS PAHRICK'S RESIGNATION WELLINGTON BRANCH STILL DISSATISFIED [Pes Unxtkd Press Association;] WELLINGTON, January 27. In a letter addressed to the adminif* trative secretary of the Blanket Society, in Dunedin, the Wellington acting secretary notifies that _ the Wellington ■ Committee. and Advisory Board still finds itself dissatisfied with the action of the executive in. demanding Miss Pattrick’s resignation, ' particularly in view of the fact -that she has been given no opportunity of.defending herself. The letter says that the Wellington ; branch, in coming to this decision, has .( not been influenced in any way /by the Advisory Board’s approval of the- council’s action, and regrets that the Advisory Board should have so advised ■the council withdut hearing both sides of : the case. The ..Wellington branch is further of the opinion that the proper course for the council to have adopted would have been to. call, a general conference before coming to any decision with'regard to dispensing with the services’of such a - highly-placed officer as Miss, Pattrick. Director of Plunket Nursing.. ’. Y. : . 1 The letter also says that‘the Wellington branch requests that all relevant facts leading up to the council’s . decision be laid before the conference, and enclose a resolution of a Wellington branch and Advisory Board meeting that the Central Council should send Miss Pattrick in writing,, at least a fortnight before the conference, their charges. against her. and that every facility be given'Miss Pattrick of access to all records, and that she bo given an opportunity for a full hearing ■ at the conference. : <