KARITANE NURSES
Sir-Might I, through your pages, draw the attention of your readers to one of the relics of social snobbery in our democratic society. Karitane nurses undergo a course of training lasting 16 months, for which course they have tc pay a fee of no less than £40, plus 30 shillings linen fee and at least £12 for uniform. During this period, they have only two weeks’ holiday, while their leave is restricted to but one really late night every three months, and one moderately late night every month; further leave is, in effect, at the discretion of the matron. They work an eighthour day, indeed. but usually they work 13 days of every 14. During the course, they receive no pay whatsoever, but their board and lodgings are allowed. Contrast this with the state of ordinary nurses, who receive some pay, who have one day off a week, whose uniforms are supplied, and who, moreover, pay no fee. Contrast it also with the training of other servants of the community: the schoolteachers, for. example, who are at least paid £70 per year. Sir, surely such community service deserves monetary reward. These conditions are unjust to any girl, whatever her financial situation. A more serious objection, however, is that poorer girls are quite excluded from any hope of becoming Karitane nurses. Ts this the
century of the comman man?-
DEMOC
RACY THWARTED
(Vogeltown).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 255, 12 May 1944, Page 7
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234KARITANE NURSES New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 255, 12 May 1944, Page 7
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