NURSES AND A CLOCK.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLV, Issue 6136, 11 February 1914, Page 4

NURSES AND A CLOCK.

lucre was a false rumor in circulation ill Sydney on January iu mat uie uuisco ai mo byuney Hospital liuu threatened to strike unless tne hospital autuonties intend ttiu conditions that demanded oi tnem tne signing ol a 'ou.uiy clock when going oil and oil duty tstatea tho 'tyuney uauy .telegraph';. Hitherto tho practice has been for Uie nurses to sign a book ami wruc the uniti in themselves. When a clock was instituted tho nurses resented what tney interpreted as a reflection on their truthiuliieos.

A peteiliou was drawn up, and signed by a big percentage ot the stall, and presentee, io iiiiu nouso comnntleo. A number oi tho nurses complained that the new system was odious in so far as it placed hospitals on a par with lactones, where the employees worked by the clock, whereas nurses worked long uour.s lor a comparatively small remuneration.

Late in the afternoon the matron and tho medical superintendent held a conference, and a lepoi t was urawn up for the houso committee's consideration. Jleaiiwliilo tho muses aro satisfied to await tho committees decision on the matter. It is their recognised tribunal in sucJi emergencies, anu as was stated by a number of them last night, tiiey are prepared to abido by the committees decision, being satisfied that they will receive fair treatment. All suggestion of strike was emphatically iiiki indignantly dewed.