FORGOTTEN PROMISE.
PAYMENT FOR TOLAGA BAY NURSE. REMINDER FOR HEALTH DIRECTOR. “The Director-General of Health lias apparently overlooked his undertaking that the Department would pay tne salary of one of the Board’s nurses at the Tolaga Bay hospital under the board’s jurisdiction, for attending the Native patients,” remarked the chairman of the Cook Hospital Board {Mr \V. G. Sherratt) at yesterday’s meeting. In reply to the Board's request for payment of £23 7s 6d as the salary of one nurse at Tolaga. Bav the Director-General of Health advised that there was no record of the Department having undertaken this arrangement. He admitted that when the question of filling the vacancy as district nurse for Natives of Tolaga Bay v, as under consideration, the Department undertook to refund the Board the nurse’s salary. It was iate.r considered that the amount of work at Tolaga Bay did not warrant the ai>pointment of a district nurse, lie had no objection to recommending the Minister to approve of the payment annually of a salary to one of the nurses at the Tolaga Bay hospital. The chairman (Mr W. G. Sherratt 1 reported that while ,iu Wellington he conferred with the Director-Gene-ral of HenJlh regarding the re-ap-pointment of a Native nurse for Tolaga Bay. Dr. Valiutine would not agree to* the appointment, but undertook to pay the salary of one nurse at Tolaga Bay hospital, the nurse’s services to be primarily for the hospital and jn the event.of an epidemic among the Natives, the Minister promised to send a special nurse to Tolaga Ba y. Tile Board decided to write to tho Minister reminding him of his undertaking.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10412, 20 October 1927, Page 6
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273FORGOTTEN PROMISE. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10412, 20 October 1927, Page 6
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