St. John Ambulance Association.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 10

St. John Ambulance Association.

The whole community will congratulate the St. John Ambulance Association on entering into occupation of i'."? new headquarters this evening, and will feel that thanks are as proper to the occasion as congratulations. Three years ago, already more than 20,000 men and women in Christchurch had been trained

by the association in first aid, home nursing, and hygiene. The number of individual services the}' had render. 1 was of course beyond reckoning; but each year adds thousands to it, and each year more thousands They are telling figures which are quoted in a supplement issued with " The Press " this morning and give the ambulance mileage for last year as 20,000, for this year as 3000 a month. Impressive, again, is the statement that women members by day and men by night are on duty at headquarters, ready to leave upon any call. Most impressive of all, however, is the fact that the many hundreds of experts whom the association has trained and placed at the community's service devote their time and skill to this cause for no reward but what is conferred by their sense of its value. But they earn, every day, the gratitude of the public; and that is the foundation, with the association's own faithfulness to its tradition, of its new home in Peterborough street.