AMBULANCE SATURDAY.

Evening Star, Issue 12769, 23 March 1906, Page 7

AMBULANCE SATURDAY.

The Dunedin public will ha.ve another opportunity to-morrow of showing their practical sympathy with a deserving charitable organisation, when the fourth annujii Ambulance Saturday will be held. This effort of the Dunedin Centro of the St. John Ambulance Association is more than ever deserving of public support, for they have extended their operations, having taken up district nursing, a work well established in tho larger towns of the Old Country. It will be remembered ’that part of previous street collections made have paid lor tho splendid ambulance waggon (costing £125) with which tho Association. have undertaken tho transport of accident and medical cases to the hospital, etc. This is carried on free where the user is unable to pay for hire. During the past seventeen years or so the Association have been holding first aid and home nursing classes ■in Dunedin and adjacent townships. There is also tho Mens Ambulance Brigade and the Women’s Nursing Corps. But we wish to draw attention to the now work now being done —viz., that of the district nurse. This lady, who holds a certificate from the Dunedin Hospital, and wears the badge of a New Zealand registered nurse, is at tho Association’s headquarters, comer of High and Macandrew streets, daily, Sundays excepted. Here, from 9 to 10 a.m., and 2 to 3 p.m., she may bo interviewed personally or by telephone on behalf of these requiring her services. From Monday to Thursday of this week tho nurse has visited twenty - four cases, not including three whose necessities called for her willing attention on Snnday. Ajs soon as the public provide the Association with the funds a second nurse will bo engaged, when infants and children will share in the good work undertaken.