MATRON HAS “GONE SOFT," SAYS NURSE TO PRISON FRIEND

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6766, 21 November 1928, Page 6

MATRON HAS “GONE SOFT," SAYS NURSE TO PRISON FRIEND

By Window to Bed LAX DISCIPLINE IN AUCKLAND HOSPITAL Per Press Association. AUCKLAND', Last Night. The case of urse E. A. Blackic,. who was dismissed from the hospital staff by a special committee appointed by the Auckland Hospital Board for sending a letter to a prisoner at Mount Eden gaol who had been a patient and in which was an indiscreet reference to the lady superintendent, was again considered by the Board to-day. After a somewhat heated discussion lasting an hour it was decided that the nurse should appear before the Board at a special meeting next Monday so that the Board might hear whr.\ she had to say in defence. In a letter to the Board the nurse said: “I think that to have my character and my career destroyed and to be dismissed at a moment’s notice is too severe a punishment for what I have done.” Mr. M. Laing, a member of the Board, said he did not think it was the Board’s business to whom the girl wrote as 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 ab the nurses were in the habit of coming in late. Discipline must be maintained. Miss Blackie said in her letter tha* the matron was “going soft.” A member: Pci-haps she meant soft hearted (laughter). The chairman added that the nurses were actually getting in through the maids’ quarters and climbing over : their beds. If they allowed this it would bo the end of discipline. Regarding tho statement of Miss Biackic that she had been dismissed without her wages, tho chairman said these had not been collected by her and were waiting for her. The resolution' to hear nurse was then carried.