Salary Scales For Hospital Board Officers

Northern Advocate, 28 October 1949, Page 8

Salary Scales For Hospital Board Officers

NEWS IN BRIEF

Salaries of hospital board clerical officers not covered by awards are fixed in regulations gazetted last evening. The maximum rate ‘for hospital board secretaries ranges from £1650 for the secretary of the Auckland Hospital Board to a maximum salary of £650 for secretaries of smaller hospital boards such as the Bay of Islands. The maximum salary for the secretary of the Wellington Hospital Board is fixed at £1450. The salaries for other whole-time clerical officers range from £llsO to £SOO for male officers and ’ from £450 to £350 for female officers.

Regulations set out the basis for computing the value of accommodation where this is provided. Provision is made for a five-day, 40-hour week, with payment for overtime and annual leaves ranges from a fortnight to three weeks.

Because he is feeling the strain of a strenuous season in England, J. Hardstaff, professional coach to the Auckland Cricket Association has been granted permission to withdraw from the next two series of senior club matches. This was decided at a special meeting of the management' committee of the Auckland association yesterday. In the meantime, Hardstafl will continue his coaching duties. The position will be reviewed by the Auckland association when the next two scries of matches have been completed.

Maximum entries have been made by New Zealand for the Empire Games to be held in Auckland in February. The secretary of the New Zealand Empire Games Association, (Mr H. Amos, of Wellington), yesterday notified the organising committee that a grand total of 257 individual entries would be made in the nine sports of the festival.

A retrial of Francis Alfred Blake, 46, a farmer, on a charge of improper duct toward a boy, was ordered to to take place in Hamilton on November 29. The accused was first tried in Hamilton in February. He appealed and a new trial was ordered. This trial concluded on Wednesday when the jury disagreed. When a new trial was mentioned yesterday morning. Mr Justice Finlay said it was desirable that the matter should be disposed of as soon as possible. Arrangements would be made for the empanelling of a fresh Jury tor the case. The accused was allowed bail*

Attempts to secure the visit to New Zealand this summer of the international lawn tennis players, Jaroslav Drobnv, formerly of Czechoslovakia. E. W.' Sturgess, of South Africa, and Misses Louise Brough and Doris Hart, of the United States, are to be made shortly by the chairman of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association (Mr A. H. Richards>.

Replacing an institution that was destroyed by fire in December, 1946, a new hospital is to be built at Opotiki at a cost of £131,842. Subject to Health Department approval, a contract for ■the work has been let by the Opotiki Hospital Board to a \Vellington contracting firm, Wilkins and Davies Construction Company, Ltd.

Although four acute cases of infantile paralysis and il convalescent cases are at present in the Auckland Hospital, the Health Department regards the position as normal. A man and a child have been c (dared positive cases this week.

Potatoes are unobtainable in Wellington, and the trade states that it will be at least two wee.ks before any relief can be expected. A recent shipment; of 2000 tons from Australia was quickly disposed of, and local stocks of old potatoes have vanished.

A fire which occurred in a washhouse detached from a four-roomed flat in Massey Street, Frankton, early yesterday morning, Was well ablaze when the fire brigade arrived. The brigade found that the occupants of the dwelling, six Maoris, were unaware of the outbreak. The fire was extinguished before much damage was done.