ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
ANNUAL APPEAL FOR FUNDS To-morrow the St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade will make their annual appeal for funds for their fleet of ambulances now operating from Christchurcn. . Owing to the ever-increasing motor traffic in the city and on the main highways generally, the niamtenance of a larger motor ambulance fleet becomes necessary, and to-day the annual upkeep for this humanitarian service has reached the large sum of £2OOO Part of this amount is received from public bodies and other organisations, but even then there is a serious shortage, and liberal donations from the general public are expected at tomorrow's street appeal.
A doubtful method of pacifying * babv was described by Mr Alfred Fitch the American athletics coach, when speakhS to the Wellington Y.M.C.A. Optimists' Club of his.work.in physical education in the Philippine Islands. He and his colleagues noticed that babies were given tobacco to chew, apparently to pacify them, before they could walk. One of the many difficulties encountered m the work was to discourage this practice.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22269, 7 December 1937, Page 4
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