PLUNKET SOCIETY DISPUTE

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 9

PLUNKET SOCIETY DISPUTE

WELLINGTON DISSATISFIED MISS FATTRICK’S RESIGNATION. “NO OPPORTUNITY OF DEFENCE.” HEARING AT CONFERENCE SOUGHT . - . ■ 'I . . ’ — 4y Telegraph—Press Association, Wellington, Jan. 27. In a letter addressed to the admlnis trative secretary of the Plunket Society, • Dunedin, the Wellington acting-secretary notifibs that the Wellington committee •and advisory board still find themselves dissatisfied with the action of the executive in demanding the resignation of Miss Pattrick, director of nursing, particularly in view of the fact that she had been given no opportunity of defending herself. The letter says: “The Wellington branch, in coming to this decision, has not been influenced in any way by the advisory board. The Wellington branch ig further of the opinion that the proper course for the council to have adopted would have been to. call a general conference before coming to any decision with regard to dispensing with the x services of such a highly placed officer as Miss Pattrick, director of Plunket nursing.” The letter also says the Wellington, branch requests that all relevant facts leading up io the council’s decision be laid before the and encloses the resolution of the Wellington branch and advisory board meeting that the central council send Miss Pattrick in writing at least a fortnight before the conference their charges against her, and that every facility be given Miss Pattrick of access to all records, and that she be given an opportunity for a full hearing- at the conference.