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Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1919, Page 5

For a considerable time there has been great difficulty in obtaining the,services of senior nurses for administrative positions in the hospitals, and the Christchurch Hospital Board has been recommended by a committee to communicate with other boards with a view to bringing pressure to bear upon the military authorities to release gome of the nurses who had returned to New Zealand so that thy might take up work in civilian hospitals. Mr. S. Andrews, speaking on the subject to a Christohurch reporter, said it was regrettable that city offices were filled with young women, while higher services in the cause of humanity did not attract them. There were hundreds of soldiers out of work, yet banks had hundreds of girls working for them. There had been much talk of reinstating men when the war was over, but it was not being done. He thought that the banks should discharge some of their girl clerks. Were the nurses treated properly in the matter of salaries, homes and superannuation it is probable the shortage would not be so acute. At {he present the nursing profession in these respects is the worst in tho Dominion.

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