W.C.T.U. CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 10

W.C.T.U. CONFERENCE

SIX-DAY WEEK FOR NURSES [Per United Press Association.] ASHBURTON, September 15. Tho Canterbury Provincial Conference of the W.C.I'.U. to-day passed tiie following resolutions: — “ That special domestic courts should be set up for the hearing of cases of maintenance, separation, and affiliation.” “That in the interests of the health and efficiency of hospital nurses hospital boards be urged to establish a six-day week instead of seven days a week of eight hours daily, as is at present in force for nurses in some hospitals.” “That tho Government be again urged to give effect to the recommendations of the committee of inquiry into mental defectives.” “ That- where men are committed to gaol for non-edmplianee with maintenance orders, provision should lie made for their immeclia'-’ employment upon remunerative work, their earnings to be applied to the maintenance of their dependents.”

“ That the publication of the details of such oases as those in which mothers in a state of mental unbalance destroy or attempt to destroy their children should be prohibited.” “ That stricter censorship should be exercised over motion pictures shown to young people.”