AMBULANCE EQUIPMENT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 585, 16 July 1913, Page 5

AMBULANCE EQUIPMENT.

At Monday evening's meeting of the To Kuiti Borough Council the chairman of the Fire Prevention and Sanitation Committee, Cr Somerville, reported having interviewed the medical gentlemen of the town upon the question ot' commencing ambulance classes in Te Kuiti, and also with the object of obtaining their advics as to the most suitable outfit to purchase for the equipment of the ambulance room at the Fire Station with the amount of funds in hand for that purpose, and they advised the procuring of the following—Stretcher, £1 29 6d; bandages, splints, and antispetics, etc., £1; bagin, kettle and chair, 15b; heater, £1 103; blankets, £1 10s; total, £5 17s tid. The chairman further reported having authorised Dr Zobel to purchase the stretcher, bandages, splints, antiseptics, etc., at a cost of £2 2s (id; and also arranged with the doctors to give ten lectures upm ambulance work, after a public rot-sting had liaen called for the purpose of forming a branch of St. John's Ambulance Association. lri reply to a question as to amounts collected for hospital or ambulance purposes in town, Cr Somerville said the only amounts collected were for a King Edward Hospital, and the council had no power to deal with any of that money. The recommendations were adopted.