Karitane Nursing
Sir, —I do not dispute “Mother’s” argument that Karitane nurses, like other members of the community, are entitled to decent pay and working hours. But it occurred to me that there might be some of these girls who hope eventually to have children of their own.
If they are able to afford £3/15/- a week (£2/15/- plus £1 keep) they might then have a Karitane while they are feeling weakest; but I wonder how they will then be able to stand up to a day which lasts from 5 a.m. to .10 p.m., with possible broken nights, which included besides their Karitane duties those odds and ends like cooking, housework, shopping, household washing, mending, gardening, and perhaps milking the cows. These tasks go to make up the country housewife’s day. If a regular day off and six weeks’ annual holiday is hardly sufficient to maintain their health at present, it seems unfortunate that these girls—who by their training should make the best mothers —will be unable to take on the job.—l am, etc., STILL ANOTHER MOTHER. Karori, August 18.
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 278, 23 August 1945, Page 6
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181Karitane Nursing Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 278, 23 August 1945, Page 6
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