LIFE SAVING
RESUSCITATION FILM CONDEMNED (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 23. A film of the Holger-Nielsen method of artificial Resuscitation made at Christchurch and Shown at the annual meeting of the New* Zealand Royal Life-Saving Society was criticised by delegates. Mr A. Gardner (Canterbury) said: “People are going to get the wrong idea. The whole muscular-mechanical set-up of the demonstration is wrong.” The secretary (Mr J. Breward) said the film did not purport to show the Holger-Nielsen method “at its top best, but only the likely standard at secondary schools. , . . , A resolution was passed unanimously to jettison the film and to use a Danish Red Cross film until another could be made. The discarded film cost £l5O to Pl The C Dani*sh film was also criticised.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27489, 25 October 1954, Page 7
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127LIFE SAVING Press, Volume XC, Issue 27489, 25 October 1954, Page 7
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