POSITION OF FIT MEN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23965, 4 June 1943, Page 9

POSITION OF FIT MEN

—,—* HOSPITAL BOARD CRITICISED AUCKLAND, June 2. The Waikato Hospital Board was criticised by the No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board recently for not making an effort to replace grade 1 men in its employment by less fit men. The board appealed for members of its medical, clerical, and orderly staffs. In answer to a question, the secretary of the Waikato Hospital Board, Mr A. C. Burgess, said the board had not yet tried to replace some grade 1 men, although II orderlies had joined the armed forces out of a staff of 39. The chairman of the Appeal Board, Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., said the board had been told to replace the fit men. Mr Burgess said that if the accountant was taken he would have to dc the accountant’s work. In giving the board’s decisions. Mr Paterson said the appeals on behalf of the doctors would be adjourned sine die. The board considered that the hospital board should make a survey of its staff, with a view to seeing what members could be released. The board also thought the hospital board should have made an endeavour to replace grade 1 men among the orderlies with grade 2 men or other men not eligible for military service.