GERALDINE FIRST AID WORK

Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22183, 29 January 1942, Page 3

GERALDINE FIRST AID WORK

HOME GUARD PLATOON INSTRUCTION For the purpose of enabling members of the Home Guard to attend to their own casualties should an emergency arise, instruction in the application of field dressings, arresting haemorrhage in the arm and leg and stretcher bearing was given to the sth Platoon, B Company, by a squad from the St. John Ambulance Brigade at Geraldine on Tuesday night. TWentysix men attended. Officer L. Bennington was in charge of the squad and members of the platoon took great interest in the work. The men were shown the correct method of opening and applying the regulation field dressing and how to remove casualties in an efficient and quick manner from confined spaces. Thanks were expressed by the platoon commander (Mr J. C. Templer) for the Instruction given to the men and Officer Bennington thanked the platoon and complimented them on the efficient manner in which they had carried out their work. WASTE METALS WANTED “Waste metals are urgently required to assist the war effort, and I am sure tile residents in the county can assist in this direction," said the DeputyMayor (Mr P. H. Davis), chairman of the Geraldine Committee for the Reclamation of Waste Materials, yesterday. It was not possible to make a house to house collection, because of the shortage of petrol, Mr Davis said, but people could leave any metals at the central depot at the borough yard, Failing this, he asked that they arrange with the town clerk (M“ A. L. Cameron) for its collection.