PLUNKET SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 13

PLUNKET SOCIETY

DIRECTOR OF NURSING

WELLINGTON BRANCH'S

ATTITUDE

A meeting of the Wellington branch of the Plunket Society and the Advisory Board was held' this week, and tho statement by members of the council and the supplementary statement by. the Advisory Board were read.

As the result of the meeting a letter has been sent to the administrative secretary of the society, Dunedin, stating that the Wellington Committee and the Advisory Board are still dissatisfied with the action of the executive in demanding Miss Pattrick's resignation, particularly in vie\v of the fact that she has been given no opportunity of defending herself.

"The Wellington branch, in coining to this decision, has not ,been influenced in any -vyay by the Advisory Board's approval of the council's action, and regrets that the Advisory Board should have so advised the council without hearing both sides of the case. The Wellington branch is further of opinion that the proper course for the council to have adopted would have ibeen to call a general conference before coming to any decision with regard to dia : pensing with the services of such a highly-placed officer as Miss Pattrick, director of Plunket nursing.

"With regard to the full statement which the council has promised to make to the conference, the Wellington branch requests that -all the relevant facts leading up to the council's decision be laid before the conference.

"The following resolution was passed: 'That the central council send to Miss Pattrick, in writing, at least a fortnight before the conference^ their charges against her, and that every facility be given to Miss Patirick of access to all records, and that she be given an opportunity for a full hearing at the conference.'" ;