ST.JOHN AMBULANCE NURSING GUILD.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1908, Page 2

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE NURSING GUILD.

Mrs, S. A. Rhodes presided at the meeting of tho St. John Ambulance District Nursing Guild committee yesterday. The report showed that Nurses Sexton and Macandrew had made 1074 visits to the sick poor during December and January. The cases dealt with included peritonitis, pleurisy, I debility, influenza, nnd other ailments of a more or less serious character. Gifts of articles lor patients had been received by the nurses from Mesdames Reynolds, Wilson, Mantell, Greig, Grunsler, Watson, Erwin, Stevens, Croker, Kirk, Hoare, Bray, Adams, Isitt, Cunliffe, Wall is, Hunter, Tripe, Chappie, Gray, Atkin, Crease, Gear Co., and Mr. M'Kenzic. Additional; subscriptions were acknowledged from' Mesdames Kendall, £1 Is ; E. J. Crawford, 10s; lan Duncan, ss; F. G. Castle, ss; Gibb, ss; C. A. Crawford, £2 2s; G. E. Tolhurst, 10s 6d ; J. Joseph, £1 Is ; Muter, ss ; Messrs. F. iW. Haybittle, 10s Cd ; J. M'Kerrow, £1; C. Sweeney, ss; Hon. Dr. Collins, £1 Is; Dr. J. H. Kemp, £2 2s; Miss Joseph, £1 Is ; Miss Elsie Joseph, £1 Is ; Messrs. Roberts and Sim 6, 10s ; Bing, Harris, and Co., £1 Is A .W. and F. C. Brailsford, 10s 6d ; Colonial Carrying Co., 10s 6d; Clark, ss; G. R. Wilton, 2s 6d ; and James Godbcr, £2 5s 3d (polyphone pennies).

The Mayor and Council of Timaru I have been exercised of late by the mixed bathing question, and they have got over tho difficulty by allotting three spaces in Caroline Beach for men, women, and mixed bathing. Complaints wore ma,di" to the council of the fascination which <he ladies' bathing section exercises upon a number of the young mon of Timaru. The council instructed the caretaker to take the necessaiy steps to teach these "peeping Toms' better