NURSES' HOLIDAYS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7345, 25 January 1911, Page 1

NURSES' HOLIDAYS

,'CUMULATIVE LEAVE ABOLISHED.

The hospital committee ye3terday recom-l ■mended to the Wellington Hospital audi Charitable Aid Board: 7

; ".That a. nurse on resigning bo granted i .her annual' leave it duo to her, 'and , .that .leave must not bo cumulative. ! ■: Mr Hindinarsh; in opposing the adoption' of the committees' report, did not the recommendation a right one;. holidays were given for recuperative purposes, He ha;! noticed that the Government, was cutting down its holidays to'- civil E-cr-J .yants on retirement from' six mouths to; tltree. .months. - Nurses should' be well treated. .'He .thought the recommendation was: a mistake. » ' .••■.>

V The Bev. Van Stavcren pointed out that occasions'occurred when it was riot con-' venient'for a nurse to take ]ier holidays., If, at the end o.f a year, three weeks'! holiday wore due, a nurso should luive it. ' , ,Mr. londou said if the holiday was given far- •recuperative purposes then, it was' manifest the holiday eliould.be taken. The,' trouble was that at the end of the.twelve! months a nurse absolutely needed a holii day. |

-jSir Smith: The holiday ought to be halfyearly instead of yearly. ' Mr McLaren thought the system of merely giving a monetary consideration in, lieu of holidays at the end of a. term of lonar service was objectionable'. . The boird' should tee that the holidays .-were taken! drying the -period of service. " . ' ,|

■The recommendation, of the ■nva?.' adopted. , „ - « r '