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