LIFE SAVING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23936, 9 April 1941, Page 15

LIFE SAVING

AUCKLAND CENTRE VALUE OF METHODS USED FOUR MEMBERS GAIN HONOURS The value of using the methods of the Royal Life-Saving Society while troops are being moved from one area to another was emphasised by the chairman of the Auckland Head Centre of the society, Mr. K. C. Reid, when speaking at the centre's annual meeting last night. Mr. Reid mentioned the large number of members serving overseas, and said that their experience of the society's work would prove very useful to them. Four members of the centre, Messrs. A. H. Boulton and H. C. Sidford and Misses E. Tilsley and B. M. Campbell, had been awarded honours by the society's central executive in London.

The importance of the scheme initiated by the centre to standardise methods of resuscitation among emergency precautions and other organisations was mentioned by Mr. Reid, who commended the efforts of Dr. T. H. Pettit and Mr. A. Gardner in putting the scheme into operation and in demonstrating the superior efficiency of the Schafer method of artificial respiration. This would be particularly essential in the event of any necessity for the emergency precautions services. There was, unfortunately, the problem of the shortage of instructors to teach E.P.S. workers.

The badge of recognition was presented to I Miss E. Tilsley by the president, Mr. A. | Macgregor. All members of the centre, he I said, were proud that Miss Tilsley's services ! had been recognised by the central executive in London. She had done splendid service in activities other than those of the society, and he personally knew the value of her work for the Auckland Primary Schools' Swimming and Life-Saving Association. _ „ „ ~ On the motion of Mr. K. C. Reid, Mr. J, G. Buchanan, a holder of the award of merit, was appointed an honorary associate in appreciation of his services as an examiner. An account was given by Mr. A. Gardner, chairman of the Surf Life Saving Society (Auckland), of the tour he recently made of the Dominion to explain and demonstrate on , behalf of the Xew Zealand Council the Schafer method of artificial resuscitation to] all bodies interested in it, particularly those | associated with the emergency precautions j scheme. His experiences, he said, had, con- ; vinced him that the public was kec...v jnter- j ested in the society's work and t««t there ; was great eagerness to learn the correct i method of resuscitation. The need for life- j saving methods was great in pence as well as in war. , „ It was resolved to recommend the .New Zealand Council to have Mr. Gardner's w;ork acknowledged by the central executive. I he. honorary secretary, Mr. J. t. Langlej, said that Mr. Gardner had already been awarded the distinguished service medal, for which he could receive stars. Mr. Langley considered. however, that Mr. Gardner should be appointed an honorary life governor of the society.