WAIKANAE

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 26 September 1919, Page 2

WAIKANAE

♦ DISTRICT NURSE. (From Our Own Correspondent). A public meeting was held in tha ?urrday schoolroom at Waikanae last light to deal with the report of Dij. tract Nurse Provisional Committee and elect a committee with power to further carry on. Some eighteen person. were present, including two frots Rikiorangi. Mr A. A. Brown occupies! the chair. The report read as under:"On May 22nd last a public meeting was convened at Waikanae, wheu ; committee from .Paraparaumu attendei with the object of placing before tli Waikanae people a proposal to secur: the appointment of a district nurse to; the district of Paraparaumu and \Y«i kanae. Tho project was taken up, as. a Waikanae committee was appoint* to seek information relating to distric nurses, and also to canvass the distri: of Rikiorangi and Waikanae fj probable support. In the course, of thJ canvass, however, it was diseovM that sufficient money would be avaiß able to warrant the appointment of t nurse in our district alone. Subse quently, the Paraparaumu people ti vised that its district, also, was wet able to raise sufficient guarantee will in itself for a district nurse, but woui: not desert Waikanae if tho latter t; quired Paraparaumu's help. Event*. I ally ,it was agreed botween tho cos mittccs of Waikanae and Paraparetic that, as each district appeared to be 2 a position to maintain and fully « ploy a nurse of its own, operatic:! would forthwith be conducted v;: that end in view.

One part, of our proposed district in the Palmerston North Hospital i trict, while tho other and lessor ps lies in the Wellington Board's ar>. and this fact has proved 'an ob<ta: for some time, during which your ca mittec went to a deal of trouble learn how tho two boards concert wero likely to deal with any reqa; for a district nurse. None of the s swers to our many enquiries threw ■■■ light on the subject, and it seemed ti nothing further would come of I efforts until wo adopted somo dclir. form of action. This your comtniv did, by making an application to • Palmerston North Hospital Bonn! September 9th last for a district n-.' to bo appointed to work in the V kanac-Bikiornrjgi district. It wast stated in our application that the 6 district was prepared to gunraotea tween £75 and £BO per year towards: proposed nurso'a salary and expet Tho Palmerston Board replied lk.11! foon as our guarantee was forthcon: npplications would at once be ClI for the position of nurse. Your <•• mittec begs to state that it tfcOßgM advisable and wise to apply to thoFj morston North Board because j greater part of our district lies wifj that board's control, and we as-d that any adjustment necessary bolvj the Wellington and Palmerston Boa might be left to tho two boards fl corned to arrange. "Your committee, therefore, iij that its action in making the appl lion for a district nurse will bo ■" firmed by you, and that you will res that the step taken was really the 0 way open to getting anything done. you approve of your committee '» att as above set out, wo hereby rccomffl that a representative committee elected with power to carry on. "We beg to point out that it is»'' lately necessary that the guaiauli" in hand without further undue ftj in order that the Palmerston SJ Hospital Board, which meets on il'A of next month, may be advised, ►o 8 no time need be lost in calling opj-i tions for the position of dWJ nur^e." The report was received and ad:;' and thanks accorded the commitW work done. After some further d- ; sion on the matter of election of * 'i mittee it was finally resolved 0m following gentlemen net a* a cokfor the district nur.'e, and to boH - for one year dating from the aft meet of the nurse:—Messrs Brown, H. Nicholson, F. Meys Johnston, O. B. Kenuley, A. W. Stand J. J. Rodger*. At a meeting of the committer j afterwards Mr Rodgers was spm chairman, and Mr Kemsley teed and treasurer. It was also deciisj go on straightaway and colled guarantee promised by resident*. I