SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 19

SOCIAL JOTTINGS.

Mrs. Robison, wife of Admiral Robison, and her friend, Mrs. Thornett, of Sydney, accompanied by Mrs. Williams, wife of i Lieutl-Colonel R, P. Williams, U.S. Marines, leave to-morrow mornng for Rotorua. Since she has been in Melbourne, Mrs. Beatrice Colby, M.A., a visitor from South Africa, has done a great deal of motoring. She is surprised to find that our motorists rarely bother taking anything in the way of first-aid equipment, on long excursions. 1 In Cview of the number of week-end accidents, she considers that first-aid mediums should be part of j every motorist's equipment. In South | Africa ■she~never~g6eff motoring without taM'ng'-a'-HftleJwail'e'r,? brandy, sal volatile" and iodine, a few bandages, some carron oil in case of burns, and a bottle of castor oil to wash put any ..foreign substance that , mayt get' into an eye. She Las rendered service on several occasions, I and in one road accident her timely J assistance saved one patient's life.