DISPUTE AT SYDNEY HOSPITAL
BOARD x ASKED TO RESIGN (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)
(Rec. 9 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 24. The immediate resignation of the Macleay District Hospital Board for having forcibly ejected Sister Pamela Swift from the Kempsey Hospital, has been demanded by a public meeting in Kempsey of 300 citizens. Sister Swift, who was the central figure in the strike of the nursing staff which followed her dismissal because of “subversive activities,” is now reinstated on the order of the Hospitals Commission pending an Arbitration Court hearing of the dispute. After calling on the board to resign the public meeting decided that a new board should be appointed by a further meeting and recommended that nurses’ representatives should be allowed on the board. “Sister Swift will go down to posterity in Australia as the equal of Florence Nightingale,” said one speaker. “She made a courageous stand for better conditions.”
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24910, 25 June 1946, Page 3
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149DISPUTE AT SYDNEY HOSPITAL Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24910, 25 June 1946, Page 3
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