ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20222, 7 October 1927, Page 10

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.

DOMINION EXECUTIVE MEETING. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 6. The Dominion Executive of the St. John Ambulance Association met this week. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes presided. Representatives were present from Auckland, Canterbury, West Coast, Timaru, Wanganui, Wellington, and Dunedin. Letters were received from the Duke of Connaught and Lieutenant-colonel Woolryche Perowne, appealing for funds to repair earthquake, damage to the Ophthalmic Hospital at Jerusalem. These were referred to Colonel Barclay to communicate with the centres. St. John’s Gate wrote approving of the issue of railway certificates. After discussion on letters from New Plymouth and Wanganui, it was decided to leave the allocation of the Government grant to the Standing Committee. The Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) was appointed patron and bead of the Order in the Dominion. An Invercargill remit relating to the issue of certificates to miners who may not have passed the approved examination was referred to the Standing Committee for action. The same committee will also communicate with the centres on the subject of the establishment of a commandery in New Zealand. It was decided that the executive should meet half-yearly, but a suggestion that the meetings be held alternately in the North apd South Islands was left to the* next annual meeting. Major general Young wrote stating that a certain portion of service in the St. John Ambulance Association would be allowed to count towards military service, subject to a certificate that such service was efficiently performed. Such trainees, however, would not be wholly exempt from military duty, but would be required to do a week’s training each year in the Ambulance Corps in their respective districts. IT—