HOSPITAL STAFF PAY

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 13 April 1934, Page 4

HOSPITAL STAFF PAY

ADJUSTMENT TO BE MADE. INVERCARGILL DECISION. . (By TotPtfinptj—rrca* Association.! INVERCARGILL/, April 02. The Southland Hospital Board at fits monthly meeting to-day discussed a proposal to review all' salaries and wages paid to its hospital staff. It was stated bv members that the nurses in the Southland hospital were the most poorly pal'd of any hospitals of the grade tin the Dominion.

“I am satisfied it is high time 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. “This board wants to do every thing possible to help the Government, but since the second cut was not enforced' on every board I do not see any reason that we should not revise the salaries we pa‘y 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 the department for other hospital boards of similar grade in the Dominion.