APPEALS BY GIRLS
AGAINST SERVICE IN MENTAL HOSPITALS ON GROUNDS OF FEAR AND HARDSHIP. HEARINGS IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. About 20 appeals against a decision of the local manpower officer, directing women, mostly young, to service as nurses at the Porirua Mental Hospital, are being heard. The manpower officer stated that every means had been taken to secure additions to the staff of the mental hospital without attracting a sufficient voluntary response, and quoted the Prime Minister’s statement that unless there was an improvement, girls in other employment must be directed there. All the girls appealing have been medically examined and were reported as fit for the work. Amongst the objections in cases heard so far, the grounds stated were fear and hardship. The necessity of taking adequate care of the unfortunate in such hospitals was stressed by the Industrial Manpower Committee. Decisions were reserved.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1943, Page 4
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149APPEALS BY GIRLS Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1943, Page 4
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