This is the first meeting of the New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association’s Central Council. The association took an anti-union stance. President Hester McLean (seated third from left) argued that ‘we must guard against any element of unionism … A nurse must be working not … for the sake of money making but for the good of her fellow creatures.’ This attitude was maintained into the 1950s, when the association rejected a government attempt to introduce payment for overtime.
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