A NURSE’S INDISCRETION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3873, 20 November 1928, Page 2

A NURSE’S INDISCRETION.

ALLEGED UNJUST TREATMENT. Auckland, Nov. 19. The summary dismissal of a nurse from the Auckland Hospital for sending an indiscreet letter to an ex-patient at the Mt. Eden gaol was referred to this morning by Mr. J. 0. Gardner, of New Lynn, at whose home the nurse is staying, she having been taken there by Mr. Gardner’s daughter, Avho is also a nurse at the hospital. Mr. Gardner states that the girl was unjustly treated and that it Avas monstrous. She was flung out on the street at a moment’s notice, without money to go home to the South Island. Although she had been given tickets, these were dated a Aveek ahead and the girl had not suffi-cient cash to keep her even one day although in a Avritten statement to the board requesting reconsideration of the case, the nurse says she had three weeks’ holiday pay due and also a fortnight of a month’s pay. The nurse had just received notice that she had passed the first examination in general nursing and prev’iously had gained a midAvifery certificate.