MATRON EWART
GOVERNMENT AND BOARD. MINISTER RECEDES FROM POSITION. (Special to the Times.) WELLINGTON, September 9. Some little time ago the Minister of Health announced that he had decided that if the Southland Hospital Board did not grant Matron Ewart, late of the Invercargill General Hospital, a pension of £lOO per annum in respect of her 23 years’ service, he would take steps to have that amount deducted from the Hospital subsidy due to the Board. Since then correspondence has been passing between the Board and the Minister, who has discovered that to carry out the direction indicated the Department would be exceeding its powers under the Hospitals Act. The Minister has decided now to agree to the original proposal of the Board that a pension of £5O be paid fcr a period of four years.
It is pointed out, however, that claims of this nature are receiving the attention of the Cabinet.
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Southland Times, Issue 19345, 10 September 1924, Page 6
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153MATRON EWART Southland Times, Issue 19345, 10 September 1924, Page 6
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