CARING FOR THE WOUNDED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2720, 15 March 1916, Page 3

CARING FOR THE WOUNDED

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIA. TION. The following details of tho work done in AVellington by. the Order of St. John, of which there are three branches existing in this city, have been given by one who is conversant with its activities. Tbese< three branches are: (a) the St. John Ambulance Association, (b) the St. John Ambulance Brigade, (c) the St. John Nursing Guild, The last-mentioned cuts out material, and packs gods for dispatch abroad, etc., at the residence of its president, Mrs. W. Sefton Moorhouse, Dixon Street., Tho biigado does its Red Cross work on the fifth floor of Nathan's Buildings. It receives goods from all parts of the district, makes up garments and also recoiving money and matorial there. Every week- sees many. bales of goods sent off to Egypt, or wherever they are required. The association has confined its efforts to tho following:—(a) Receiving ..moneys and goods for hospitals, hospital ships, and lied Cross work generally; (b) 'distributing moneys, such as sending £100 since February 1, direct to-.Cairo, also £50 at the end of 1915, and contributing £25 towards a soup kitchen fund, per Mrs. Moorhouse; (c) providing a sum of money as a nucleus for U elhngton's equipment for 2nd Stationary Hospital; (d) providing part of equipments .for Maheno and t (e) 'contributing to St. John's Gato (Headquarters), to assist in Red Cross work in England,' where so many of our wounded have been in hospital; (f) and lastly sending goods to the front. As many of our readers know the St. John Ambulance Association was in exisienco many years before the Red Cross organisation came to light. Trie past year has been the busiest m the history of the local branch of tho association, for besides doing so much in assisting our sick and wounded, it has been responsible for enlightening many hundreds in the snbject of "First Aid to the Injured" and in "Home Nursing." Record classes were maintained throughout tho past year, and it is to be hoped that all who do not know what to do when all accident occurs will attend the lectures which will begin later in the year. Besides the many aefs of assistance that the association has been able to perform in various directions, it must not be forgotten that its members worked most zealously on Red Cross Day. in response to Lord •Lansdowne's appeal for funds for British Red Cross work. One would wish that, the association had an- office and rooms of its own wherein .to give lectures, • and to do Red Cross work. Auckland and other centres have their own buildings, and it is sincerely to be hoped that- some of the friends of the. St. John Ambulance in "Wellington will come forward, and augment its funds for that object.