Central Council

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume III, Issue 3, 1 July 1910, Page 95

Central Council

Since our last report the four branches of the Association have been asked by the Central Council to consider several important matters, the chief one, perhaps, being the election of members. It is felt desirable that in oreler to promote the harmony, and also to uphold the high professional and social status of the Associations that newcomers to the Dominion should not be at once admitteel to its ranks, unless personally known to members. Therefore the branches have been asked to consider a mode af election somewhat similar to those prevailing in other clubs and societies. State registration, while vouching for the training a nurse has received, and by placing her upon the register, giving her the opportunity of exercising her profession, cannot give any guarantee that she will be an acquisition as a member of a club such as our association is ; some personal knowledge is required. The rules have also been undergoing revision, and we hope shortly to have them complete and uniform for the four branches. The choice of some mark of membership, not a

badge, as the nurse members elo not wish to supersede the registration badge, has been found difficult, anel the decision of the Central Council at the meeting last year may yet be reconsidered. Fees have also been giving rise to much discussion. At the time of the death of our late King Edward VII., the members of our Association wisheel to convey their sympathy to Queen Alexandra, anel the president was requested to send a cable. The following cable was sent : — " The New Zealand Trained Nurses' Association offer deep sympathy to Queen Alexandra. — President. ' ' Th- 4 reply received next el ay was as follows : — " Queen Alexandra sincerely thanks you for kind sympathy in her sorrow." To Presielent, Trained Nurses' Association, Wellington. The President also wrote a letter to the Editor of the " British Journal of Nursing," expressing the regret of the New Zealand Trained Nurses' Association at the sad news of the death of Miss Isla Stewart, Matron of vSt. Bartholomew's Hospital.