SOUTHLAND NURSES

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 April 1934, Page 2

SOUTHLAND NURSES

SALARIES TO BE INCREASED

[FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION’.] INVERCARGILL, April 12. The Southland Hospital Board, at its monthly meeting, to-day. discussed proposals to review all salaries and wages paid to its hospital staff. It was stated by members that the nurses in the Southland Hospital were the most poorly-paid of any hospitals 01. this grade in the Dominion. “I am satisfied it is high time that we revised the salaries paid to our nurses,” remarked the Chairman (Mr T. Golden). “I don’t think there is any profession, skilled' or unskilled, that does more or better work than hospital nurses, and I would be very surprised to' find that there is any profession more poorly paid. Tins Board wants to do everything possible to help the- Government, but since the second cut was not enforced on eveiy Board, I don’t see any reason that we should not revise the salaries we pay to our nurses. They should not have to suffer the hardship of a second cut.” The meeting went into committee to discuss the actual details of readjustment, and it was decided: “That the salaries of the nursing division should be adjusted to the minimum scale, as suggested by tlie Department, of other Hospital Boards of a similar grade in the Dominion.”