MATRON-AND NURSE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 172, 14 April 1908, Page 4

MATRON-AND NURSE.

DIFFICULT' POSITION AT NAPIER ' HOSPITAL (BT! TELEQHArH'.—-SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT-) * J " Napier, April 13 1 . Aru>uriforttmat'o position, has - arisen at the Napier Hospital -owing to a dispute botweon tho matron: (Mies -Edwnrda) and 0110 of tho nunes. .:Tho.mirsoxiva« dismissed by tho , mawoai, '.hofc'.thiS ) sit''.w'&-foundj Miss Edwards had no 'powop tO 'do.. ifTlio nwreo asked for an meeting of tho Hospital' ;Tfiiste«stgt was unanimously decided ovidonoo to. warrant tho girl's*'di3Tn!Bsal.- Sinco then tho nurso has not hcoilrrvllowctl to„resumo duty,' and at tho . usual,'.moritlb)% meeting of tho Hospital -Trustees,;jheld (Mr. C. H. . Cranny) soid 'it wki quite impossible' for the ma-trdn and > tho'.nurso'to .remain at'/thoJios- : pital,V and ho i.t&ld-' tho nurso • that her dismissal by the\Watroii-.was still in-forco, but He'.had' received a lotter! 'froth tK/iSfcfcffa stating . that tho reinstatement of^t^'./jjurso.would not bo.ccqi--ducivo to good'focijng at tho hospital, and sho asked that tho 'Board consider tho position. ■ .Mr.' Cranby,j,\aid that/.eithefr tho matron or tho liavo. to go. Ho had asked to tako threo months' •leavo of absence on full pay, and if, tho Board' would not. agreo to pay this ho would pay hitjis!iif. had not'agreed to this Messrs.. Cresswell .'andV-Gieefon,' wfio.had; written ,to' him setting out her legal position. , Ho had referred, this'l'letter' tCtho' Trustees' solicitors, and they had,advised that, under rule.'24 of tho'hospitar^it'-.wa ! s'%uite possiblo, if members thought tho nurso should be dismissoxl, to givo,her olio mouth's,notice. Ho thought th'Oy.'Bhould'.abide-.by'-this advioo, and moved to -this'.effect:' £Mr. M'Gr'atli said that at t-bo inquiry tho complaint- made by tho matron was not substantiate!, tho.-nurse was proved- to bo ni tho'right". '. Ho. could not soo how the Board could . now , dismiss horV • •#Aftor somd ..disouEsion, tho chairman's motion-.was- osrriod >by,(ive to two. S3lr. M'Grath gavo liotico to' move ,at next mooting bo held into tho • manngeinent'.of.'the', hospital.