NURSES’ UNION

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19913, 16 June 1936, Page 9

NURSES’ UNION

IWO APPLICATIONS. i } PROBLEM or REGISTRATION. i _._ i 1 ‘ DEPUTA'I‘ION T 0 MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. As an application for registration of the Dental and Medical Nurses‘ Union was followed by an application for the Dental Nurses‘ Union. the nurses responsible for the first application waited on the Hon. H. T. Armstrong. Minister of Labour, requesting that registration should not be granted to that particular section 01’ the industry. The Minister said he did not know of any barrier to medical and dental nurses being registered as one industrial union, and there would be no bar to private hospital names being included. because such hospitals oper‘ ated for pecuniary gain. Hospital Boards, on the other hand. might apply for exemption for hospital nurses, claiming that their hospi—tals were not operated for gain. if the Dental and Medical Nurses' Union secured registration and provided for dental nurses. rcgistration would have to be refused any one section. on the grounds that there was a union to which they could properly belong.

The Minister said he would arrange for a registrar to examine both applications for registration. If the department decided to consider registering the combined ua'on the other side would have to be advised of the order and would have an opportunity to show why registration should not be granted. It was not the Government‘s desire to force the one—bigunion idea on people who did not want it. but machinery had been pro \‘ided in the new legislation for those who desired it.