RED CROSS CADETS

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30332, 7 January 1964, Page 2

RED CROSS CADETS

Brisbane Visitor For Course

A member of the Junior Red Cross Cadet. Organisation in Brisbane is at present staying in Methven before attending the Red Cross leadership training course which begins at Lincoln College on Thursday. She is Marcia Townsend, aged 17, who is staying with Mrs D. Dolan.

Among those attending the course will be representatives from Fiji, the United States, and Western Samoa. About 50 New Zealand juniors will be attending. Miss Townsend will go to the North Island after the course and will visit other Red Cross centres. Yesterday, accompanied by Mrs Dolan, she visited the Ashburton Hospital where she met the occupational therapist (Miss D. Pritchard). Tonight. she will attend a film evening at Methven.

Miss Townsend, who is a receptionist with a private hospital in Brisbane, said that the scenery she had seen so far was like that in Australia, “but I miss the smell of the gum trees.” She first started in Red Cross when she began primary school and now has her senior first-aid qualifications.

After her arrival in Christchurch from Melbourne on Sunday, Miss Townsend stayed with Yvonne McKay, of Christchurch, who is also going to the course at Lincoln.

Fluoride. Four children who had swallowed too many fluoride tablets were treated at the Christchurch Hospital and then sent home last week, but there were no cases of poisoned children havin< to be admitted.