RED CROSS WORK

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 130, 28 November 1929, Page 7

RED CROSS WORK

GIRLS' COMPETITION

Girls of the secondary schools -who have been attending Red Cross lectures in Home Nursing under Sister Lewis, Red Cross Sister, took part recently in competitions for a silver salver presented by, Lady Luke. The Red Cross rooms were filled Trith girls in fresh white imiformg and nurses' veils, with the Red Cross on their sleeves, all looking very trim and businesslike. There were two teams from Wellington East Girls' College, three from Wellington Girls' College, two from Wellington Girls' College House, and one from, the Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt, and they demonstrated bed-making, bathing a patient, poulticing, applying fomentations, iodine treatment, bandaging, and other treatments of the sick. Two hospital beds were placed in the lecture room, and the 'girls set to work in pairs to make and unmake beds, and demonstrate the various exercises required. • Misg Lambie and Miss Moore, of the Health. Department, and. Nurses Whitelaw and Allen were judges, and with so many teams, much time was taken in the demon-" Btration, which, was very interesting. _ The winners of the trophy were Wellington Girls' College House, B team, who gained 335 points. The captain was Nancy, Caughley, and the other girls, Nan Berry, ' Sybil St. George, Joy Keating, Leonora Coldstream, and Eva Webber. The following were the places gained by. the other teams: Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt (Lorna Percy, captain), 314 points, 2; Wellington Girls' College (school) B Team (Alice Laughlin, captain), 303 points, 3; College House A. Team (Marjory Nicholson, captain), 301 points, 4; Wellington East Girls' College, A Team (Georgina Reid, captain), 299 points, 5; Wellington Girls' College (schood) C Team (Mary Kitching, captain), 293 points, 6; Wellington Girls' College (school) A Team (Joy Peacock, captain), 292 points, 7; Wellington East Girls' College B Team (Sybil Brooke-Tay-lor, captain), 290 points, 8.