ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 3

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION.

A meeting oi the St. John Ambulant^ Association District Nursing Guild Com mittee was held yesterday, Mrs. S. A. Rhodes presiding. A report, submitted by the senior district nurse, showed that Nurses Sexton and Mncandrew paid 783 visits to the sick poor during March. Fourteen additional patients were registered and eight discharged. Six patients were attended at the offico daily, and two twice daily. Four patients were sent to the general hospital. Among tho cases under treatment were chronic rheumatism, badly burnt foot, cancer, quinsy, jaundice, injury to head, crushed foot, enteric fever, etc. Gifts of food, clothing, etc., have been received from Mesdames Moorhouse, j Sutre, Dunlop, Watson, H. M'l^ean, Vaie, Lee, Bicknell, T. G. Macarthy, Crawford, Frouns, Higgie, Cooper, Williams,^ Thomson, M'Morran, Preston, ! "A Friend," Gear Company, Andrews and Wyett. Subscriptions were acknowledged as follow :— Mrs. A. Crawford, £2 2b ; Dresden Piano Company, £1 is ; Mr. W. A. Kellow, £1 Is; Mr. W. H. | Turnbtill, £1 Is; Messrs. 11. Bell and Co., £l Is; Messrs. Smith and Smith, 10s 6d.

The Perth Chamber .if Commerco re- i cently carried a resolution that, owing to the spread of gambling in the State, tho chamber urges upon the Government the necessity for enforcing the gambling -laws in order to suppress it. Gambling, it was stated, wa» carried on to an extent in Kalgoorlic paralleled in no other part of Australia. Women were the worst gamblers,* and the money which the miners gave their wives to pay the storekeepers' bills was often squandered in whippet racing. Warehouhc managers stated that dishonesty of o party of youthful employees had been traced to unregistered racing, which, with registered racing, it was urged, should be restricted. A deputation from the chamber will brinjr the matter before the Acting Premier. The commissioner of police (Mr. Hare), when interviewed, haid that he had received a letter from the Kalgoorlie Council, urging the suppression of betting. "Personally," he said, "I have, ever since I became commissioner, been in favour of the suppression of bookmaking at race meetings and sports gatherings. The laws permit of this being done, but for many years past it. has been allowed to continue. Racing clubs would not, in my opinion, suffer in the (lightest degree if bookmaking were prohibited, because the totalisator gives ample facilities for any speculation which racegoers desire to indulge in." At the New Century Hall, Kent-ter-race, on Sunday, the Key. Samuel Barnett, ex-Methodist minister, delivered an addrti-? to a fairly large audience on "Spiritualism; Its Message to Humanity." Mr. Bnrnett is under engagement tothe society for three months, during which time he will give week-night Ipcluie>, including v lantern lecture on 'Spirit Photography."