AUCKLAND HOSPITAL BOARD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1466, 14 June 1912, Page 6

AUCKLAND HOSPITAL BOARD.

nurses- salaries. ■ ■ Te!effrapii.~-Presa AESoclatiori.l.. .. .. .; ■■:'' . Auckland, Juno 13. ■ The Auckland ''Hospital:.arfd ; Aid/ißtMrdrwaS: t;> have held -ijmeetingi'jn:; conimittee .this iiwf.hi.ifgjV'.but at:'tlie;. limp.; for commencement the numbsr of mem-.' 'tiers.. in - at. t end ance vfas;yDiie; , : steri;'..'pf quorum. Ono .memb?r orrived. later, but ini the. m'oantiiii'e anoth"ei' had,;left, ,and it; was.-detided to jirccoed with- business In;; an informal way. " . Tho. question of nurses', salaries was dis-' eus-.ed, lvhen.-a letter was read from. tho. Otago Hospital. Hoard, .suggesting, .the"dpT! .'•irability.ot" having a .uniform set of r.aiar r .. :i^ i *.fo^','njir.=i!s}.iii' : . ■th'cV%Sspitals i \of;';the'. ; pqi'' faiuifiri. It ;was;'.respited;:; "T'hnt th*} cotnliiittec re;Commeiid to the: board., iliat it-'is' : h uniform-set., of salaries, but thn.t no ; reductions should ba made, in .Auckland." ■ %'. ■ • A-' : ;'; ; '4i

vThe.'S'proidem. of iinancing the; treatment' ;irdspifeP;Bpard; «ii : . < -<;.;sun'eiing; ; w'ho; 'fiiid:.;tlie'mMlves: ln\ hospital treatment, and usually they are :n'ofc;iii a:'p6sitipi!, to pay for it;'. ■ Thb 'Hospital Jfeard wrote 'ree'eiitly .to; ■■tlib' , '.lnsj'ie.c-: i ■tor-G«ftef'al ; of' llospitals Valihtin:');; : :jn'.^oiinectiori. -o.ll^.'k ? ; tjS- ■ : Wy,;%as; : a' , ea'd : '':th'is''.ffi^^ bersupf itlie/'boardf InK'^uniiitteP;'. writer said.lie could, oiily refer, the board ■to.; .'tlieycircular Sisaued ;by the.'/Depar.tiiientt' in-.;.Srp(ember, W.l", bver'the signature of iiiichisr^e/' (tlib, ; Qco'rgoM'ow;lds). T'his stated .that the'Goy.-'; ernment was prepar«l -to erect iir large : .centres suitable ' wiirsis . for treatment of■alcolipiic- cases';... ;In;. the; nic.'in,tim<', ,houeveV;' the llbspit'alV Boards iii : .(h'e pilnci,palvcentres..\yefp for. their treatment, and....', tlis i)enarlmhnt would. undi;rt'ako .to pay- the full -cost ofmaintenance of such paiienis. .It was un;.'an!i'no'ii'sly- to tlie. i.Goveriir'; fiicn'ti;fpf;;.ciis« dealt with during tli? last six months.. '';"V .....; '■