HELPING OURSELVES.
What self-help can do in a community is, as His Excellency the Governor-General has just remarked, admirably illustrated in the operations of the St. John Ambulance Association. This splendid organisation is taken for granted by most people. It would be interesting, for instance, to know how many of the thousands who watch the ministrations of the Association's officers on the football Held ever ask how this service is-supplied. The fact that this and many other services are furnished by voluntary subscription, and I without help from the Government, shows what can bo done by the spirit of independence and self-help that Lord Bledisloc rightly praises. Such enterprise not only, serves the cause of suffering humanity, but checks the disposition to lean upon the State. Independently supported and directed, the Association is a bulwark of certain primary virtues.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1932, Page 6
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