HOSPITAL PROBATIONERS

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 9 April 1920, Page 3

HOSPITAL PROBATIONERS

SHOULD LOCAL GIKLS BE TAKEN. At tlic Palmerston North Hospital Board meeting yesterday, Mrs Gill asked if probationary nurses had been advertised for. as decided upon at the previous meeting:. The Secretary replied that this had been done, but" the advertisement had not appeared in the local papers, in deference to the matron's -wishes. Mrs Gill said this matter had been before the Board some years ago. and sue had no desire to drag in any unpleasantness. She moved that applications for probationers should be advertised in the Palmerston papers. Mr Murdoch seconded the resolution, and urged that the matron had nothing to do with such a matter. Seeing that probationers were paid such a miserably low wage, Ids 6d per week, he thought that local girls would be more likely to apply for the positions, as then they could be helped at home. The Chairman said it had been thought inadvisable to have local girls as probationers. Airs Gill said there had been some “miserable yarn” about a probationer, some rears ago. telling yarns about the hospital, and henco they were to turn down all local girls. It was ridiculous. Dr. Whitaker said if they could not get sufficient nurses iron! outside, it would be necessary to get local girls, but he thought it preferable to get outsiders, in the interests Of the gir.s themselves, who -would be happier in a strange place. Airs Gill stated that the Auckland Board advocated having local girl*, owing to the low salaries paid, yet this Board took an opposite view. Airs Gill’s motion that applications be called in the- local papers was car ’ tied.