§ Mr. Ralph Ethertonasked the Minister of Health when it is intended to grant to assistant nurses of the Civil Nursing Reserve the benefits of the award made in respect of the cost of living to civil defence workers including nursing auxiliaries; and whether he will expedite payments in respect thereof to assistant nurses who are suffering hardship through their present anomalous position?
Mr. M. MacDonaldAssistant nurses of the Civil Nursing Reserve, resident in hospital, are paid on a different basis from that of members o the general Civil Defence Services, and the question of any variations in their present emoluments will be considered on merits.