SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19772, 13 April 1934, Page 8

SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL

SALARIES OF NURSES TO BE ADJUSTED. By Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, April 12. The Southland Hospital Board, at its monthly meeting to-day, discussed proposals to review all salaries and wages paid to its hospital staff. It was stated by members that nurses in the Southland Hospital were the most poorly paid of any hospitals of this grade in the Dominion. “I am satisfied it is high time we revised the salaries paid to our nurses,” remarked the chairman (Mr T. Golden). “I don’t think these is any profession, skilled or unskilled, that does more or better work than hospital nurses, and I would be very surprised to find that there is any profession more poorly paid. This board wants to do everything possible to help ohe Government, but since the second cut was not enforced on every board I don't see any reason that we should not revise the salaries we pay our nurses. They should not have to suffer the hardship of the second cut.” The meeting went into committee to discuss the actual details of the readjustment and it was decided “that the .salaries of the nursing division should be adjusted to the minimum scale, as suggested by the Department, of other hospital boards of similar grade in the Dominion.”