THE AMBULANCE MAN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 148, 8 June 1936, Page 4

THE AMBULANCE MAN

With no reward other than the satisfaction which accompanies puljlio tervice, the St. John Ambulance Association (Napier division) carries on its work on the Napier playing-fields week after week, and the public has only a vague idea of the work accomplished. Last Saturday, for example, there was a trained ambulance man available to every participant in sport on AlcLean and Nelson Parks. The erdwds occasionally see a uniformed member of the division run on to the field when “man out" is signalled, and they roe lii-n render first aid. This represents ouly a very minor part of the work. It is in the dressing-rooms that the major part of the division’s help is given. At AlcLean Park alone on Saturday five ambulance, men were occupied for over an hour in the dressiug-rooms attending to such injuries ns sprained ankles, torn ligaments, strained muscles, cuts, bruises, etc. Interest in the work was never greater in the Napier division than it is to-day, and members arc showing the utmost enthusiasm