Need for First Aid at Football
[Special to “Northern Advocate ”J KAIKOHE, This Day. Absence of first aid officials at Bay of Islands football is a great lack. On Saturday there were three casualties which needed attention in the two football matches played on the Recreation ground, Kaikohe, and yet there was not a St. John ‘Ambulance officer or cadet on the field. One of the players sustained an injury to his knee, and had it not been for the advice of a referee and one or two bystanders it might have received the wrong attention.
In any case, he had to be conveyed to a doctor without the assistance of anyone who had any knowledge of first aid.
It is appalling that Kaikohe does net have a St. John Division, and the people who intend to form a branch of the Red Cross Society in the town will be rendering an invaluable service to sportsmen.
It is to be hoped, that in the meantime, the St. John Ambulance officials in Moerew.a will endeavour to arrange for an official or a cadet to be at the Kaikohe ground every Saturday.
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Northern Advocate, 31 May 1939, Page 9
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