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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20316, 15 August 1931, Page 16

A course in education, built around the showing of educational talking pictures, wa§ given recently in the main ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, District of Columbia. It was sponsored by leading educators of the city and its vicinity, among them Mr W. J". Cooper, Commissioner of Education of the United States. Subscription to the course was by invitation only and was extenedd to those who had a special interest in education. A charge of four dollars for the series was made, and so great was the response that the ballroom was not large enough to accommodate all who desired to attend. Each evening a person prominent in educational circles conducted the discussion that followed the showing of the pictures. A tribute to the efficiency of the St. John Ambulance in Auckland was paid by Mr T. H. Henderson, chairman of the Association in New South Wales, and inspector of ambulance services in that State, at a meeting of the committee of the Auckland centre. "I have made an examination of your cars and first-aid equipment, and I have had a thorough look round your station, which, by the way, is the largest maintained by the Association in Australia and New Zealand," said Mr Henderson. "I want to say that your ambulance cars are among the best I have seen. They are the best that money can procure, and are on a par with those of London, which probably maintains the best service in the world." Mr Henderson said it was a pity that two bodies—the Hospital Board and the Association—were both doing ambulance work in Auckland. The cars must clash at times, he said. The chairman pointed out that the Association was prepared to take over the whole of the ambulahco work Mr Henderson, who was on his way home from the centnnnry celebrations of the Order of St. John which were recently hekl in London, gave an interesting description of the various ceremonies.