Fees for Midwifery Pupils at St. Helens Hospitals

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XIV, Issue 1, 1 January 1921, Page 20

Fees for Midwifery Pupils at St. Helens Hospitals

It has been decided by the Htm. Minister of Health that, as midwifery nurses are so badly needed in New Zealand, wiomen should be given every possible encouragement to take the necessary training for this profession. The moderate fee hitherto charged of £20 for unqualified women and £10 for registered nurses has therefore been reduced to a minimum

of £1 and 10s. It must he recognised that this fee does not represent the value of the training offered at the State maternity hospitals but is imposed merely because the Midwives Act lays down that a fee is to be paid, and would require an amendment which cannot be made until next session, to enable the fee to be altogel her given up.