A NURSE'S CLAIM.
UNUSUAL CASE AT CHRISTCHURCH. By Telegraph,—Press Association. ChTistchurch, April 28. In the Magistrate's Court to-day Florenoe Martha Lewis claimed £lB from the Ashburton Hospital Board for services rendered as a nurse in charge of a temporary hospital at Methveri during the influenza epidemic from December 5 to 25, at £6" 6s pwr week. The defendant board counter-claimed for £2O, the value of 42 mattresses, 65 pillows, and a carpet-runner wrongfully burned or destroyed at the temporary hospital. The defendants contended that the remuneration claimed by plaintiff as an unregistered nurse was excessive, and that 10s per day was a fair rate of pay. The magistrate, after reviewing the. evidence, said that 13s 6d per day, considering the circumstances, would be a fair rai;e of pay, and gave judgment for plaintiff for,£l2 3s. With regard to the counter-claim it was his opinion that Nurse Lewis had been authorised to destroy the articles, and bo would give judgment against the board, with costs. i
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1919, Page 5
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165A NURSE'S CLAIM. Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1919, Page 5
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