HOSPITAL FINANCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 2

HOSPITAL FINANCES

NURSES’ WAGES TO BE REVIEWED. . CONSIDERATION AT MARCH MEETING. “I anticipate that at the end of our financial year, in March, we will finish up with a credit balance of £5,000,” said the chairman, Mr H. H. Mawley, at yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board. Mr Mawley emphasised that that was for ordinary maintenance expenditure and not for capital expenditure. The general trend was that the receipts and expenditure were less than those estimated. The Managing-Secretary, Mr Norman Lee, said that it would be, of great assistance in framing the estimates for the next financial year if the board'eonsidered at the March meeting the nursing staff’s salaries and wages. Mr Mawley said that the board would consider giving effect to the scale of wages laid down by the Hospital Boards’ Association. The board wished to bring the wages and salaries at lhe hospital in line with those of other hospitals throughout New Zealand. It would be necessary, said Mi’ Mawley, to apply to the Conciliation Commissioner for permission to make the alterations. On the motion of Mrs S. Fletcher, seconded by Mr H. Thomas, it was decided to obtain permission from the Conciliation Commissioner and consider the matter at the March meeting.