HOSPITAL BOARD MEETS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 125, 17 August 1927, Page 12

HOSPITAL BOARD MEETS

SALARIES OF MATRONS PRESENTATION TO NURSES The Auckland Hospital Board met yesterday afternoon, Air. William Wallace presiding. A letter was received from the Wellington Board recommending that the salary of matrons in the four principal centre hospitals be increased to £375 a year and that it be the maximum. The chairman said the recent conference hud agreed that the four principal centres should have a maximum of £ 350 a year and that had been further approved at a meeting of the executives concerned. It was decided to reply in that strain to the Wellington Board. A request from the Alasseurs’ Registration Board that one trainee be placed on the massage staff after next examination was referred to the Aledical Superintendent. The report from the Auckland Dental Hospital showed that for the month ended July .31, there -were 561 children and 227 adults in attendance at the hospital, a total of 788 against 757 for the same period last year. During the meeting, the chairman made presentations of medals and books to four nurses who recently passed their examinations. Nurses Al. Long and AI. Gilchrist received gold medals, having obtained 86 per cent., and Alisses D. A. Eskrigge and AI. Hayward, books, having obtained S 3 per The chairman stated that Aliss Long had since been appointed Sister at the hospital. He congratulated the recipients and said the members were proud of the success of the ladies in so noble a profession.