WAGES FOR NURSES
Our Own Correspondent)
Waipawa Board Decides To Make Increase
(From
' WAIPUKURAU, This Day. Increases are to be made in the salaries of the nurses at the Waipukurau Public Hospital following the advice of the jnedical superintendent. Wlien the proposal was discussed at tlie monthly meeting of the Waipawa Hospital Board vesterday the ehairman (Mr W. H. Rathbone) said that all the papers of the Dominion had been advertisiug for nurses almost every day lately and they had been offering gocd salaries. He expressed the opinion that if the board did not increase the salaries of its nurses it was going to lose thein. He understood that there was already a shortage of senicr nurses on the staff of the Waipukurau Public Hospital. Mr D. Eddy said that there was no alternative but to raise the nurses' salaries. • IVIr Rathbone moved that the following .increases be made. — Charge nurses, increased from £90 per annum to £110 per annum ; staff nurses, second year, increased from £80 per annum to £100 per annum; staff nurse, first. yeai, increased from £75 per annum to £90 per annum. The motion .was carried.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBHETR19370423.2.5.1
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 3
Word Count
190WAGES FOR NURSES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 3
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in