HOSPITAL NURSES.
DEPUTATION TO THE COM- '
M3TTEE.
Messrs A, Donald,' A. B. Wood, H. Milne - and A. Jackson waited upon the Central Committee of the Wairarapa Hospital and* Charitable Aid Board yesterday in support of a resolution passed at a recent- public meeting, urging that suitable provision be made for recreation by the nurses' of the Masterton Hospital during their leisure time.
Mr A. B. Wood, wlio had recently been an inmate of the hospital, said he had been impressed with the absence of facilities for recreation for the nurses. He thought it in the interests of the board, as well as of the nurses l , that better provision should be made for the creature comfort of those employed at the hospital. Mr -Hector Milne, who had been a member of the recent Hospital Ball Committee, read the following petition/ sighed by thirty members of the Ball Committee: "We, the undersigned, being members of the committee for the last Hospital Ball held in Masterton to raise funds for furniahifig the Nurses' Home, respectfully request the Bdard to expend an unexpended balance of such funds towards. providing for the private use | of thtymirses at the Masterton hospital : A piano for the Nurses' Home; a concrete • tennis court; and. a croquet la w'n."' ! Mr D. J. Cameron, chairman of the committee, stated that he and other members were in sympathy with the objects of the It was, however, a question of funds. The matter would be brought before the board in due ico'Kse,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 December 1913, Page 6
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251HOSPITAL NURSES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 December 1913, Page 6
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