A NURSE’S CLAIM.
CHRISTCHURCH, April 28.
In the Magistrate's Court to-day Florence Martha Lewis claimed £l6 from the Ash burton Hospital Board for services rendered as niirso in charge of a temporary hospital at Mothven duriag the influenza epidemic from December 5 to 25, at £6 6s per week. The defendant board counter-claimed for £2O, tho value of 42 mattresses, 65 pillows, and a carpet runner wrongfully burned or destroyed at the temporary hospital. Defendants contended that the remuneration claimed by plaintiff, an unregistered nurse, was excessive, and that 10s per day y. as a fair rate of pay. Tho Magistrate, after reviewing the evidence, said that 13s 6d per day, considering the oircumstances would be a fair rate of - pay, and gave judgment for plaintiff for £l2 3s. With regard to the counterclaim, it was his opinion that Nurse Lewis had been authorised to destroy the articles,
and so would give judgment against the board, with costs.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3398, 30 April 1919, Page 39
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158A NURSE’S CLAIM. Otago Witness, Issue 3398, 30 April 1919, Page 39
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