ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24142, 8 December 1941, Page 8

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

BUSY YEAR REVIEWED

"The ambulance transport depi ment has carried more patients J travelled more miles than ever befc and the ambulance service is second none in the Dominion," sjg r s the rep of the Auckland centre of the St. Jt Ambulance Association for the y ended September 30, to he presen to the 50th annual meeting of i centre on Wednesday. The report ai that the blood transfusion serv had supplied nearlv double the nttmi of donors it did the year before. The balance-sheet of the centre she the financial position to be satisf tory. A total of £6480 was paid salaries, and the running costs of ambulance amounted to £2414. J annual appeal resulted in the rece of £2498. Excess of income over i penditure in the general accot amounted to £1661. "Next year the centre celebrates 50th year cf service to the communi but the war will debar us celebfationa," the report says. J ambulance Btatiqn has been enlari and added to in the past, but spi is still insufficient for our nee especially the garage accommodatu which is sorely taxed." _■ Under the Emergency Precantu Service, over 100 motor-cars and trucks are impressed for auxiliary a bulance wbrk in an emergency. the port adds. It mentions\that the y< had been particularly busy for the o trict nursing service, more galls'ha" been made because of so many docti being overseas, and the remainder a perntelv over-worked.' • , Tlie report of the St. Jolui Am lance Brigade says that activities ha been well maintained, in spite ot t being 150 members/ on active sen and many others on home defence or camp. The brigade has been asKeu staff three advance dreeing s £, , and over 50 aid posts under the genoy Precautions Service.