§ Mr. D. FootMr. Speaker, I ask leave to present to this honourable House a Petition signed by 10,146 electors and residents in the Borough of Ipswich. The grievance to which the petitioners call attention is the inadequate salaries paid to nurses and other hospital staff, the fact that such salaries compare unfavourably with those paid in other comparable occupations, and the need to increase salary scales as a matter of urgency and to review the whole salary structure.
The Prayer of the Petition reads as follows:
Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray that your honourable House will give further consideration to the salaries of nurses and other hospital workers and will find means of prevailing on Her Majesty's Government to reward them more adequately for the services which they render.
§ To lie upon the Table.