Northern Wairoa Hospital

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume IV, Issue 1, 1 January 1911, Page 20

Northern Wairoa Hospital

Another hospital has been m trouble. Recently the nursing staff of the above county hospital decided to resign m a body, giving as their reason their dissatisfaction with the matron. The Board held an inquiry and accepted all the resignations, much to the surprise of the disaffected ones, who expected to be asked to remain. The matron had been m the service of the Board for six years as staff nurse, and two as matron, and there had been no cause to be

dissatisfied with her. The Board therefore decided to uphold her, and appoint a new staff. Northern Wairoa Hospital is not a training school.

L,ater news is that the Board has decided to transfer Miss Turnbull to the charge of the Whangarei Hospital, and to send Miss Dixon to Northern Wairoa. Both hospitals are under the same management. Miss Turnbull had resigned, but the committee refused to accept her resignation.