ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 106, 29 January 1935, Page 2

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

Medals For New Zealanders Intimation has been received by the chief commissioner of St. John Ambulance Brigade that his Royal Highness the Grand Prior has approved of the issue of the service medal and service medal bar of the order to the following members of the brigade overseas within the Dominion of New Zealand: — Service medal: District Superintendent A. W. Frobcrt, Auckland; Lady Ambulance Officer L. K. Sykes, Brooklyn Nursing Division; Sergeant F. Daviesand Private A. Relph, Wanganui Division; Lady Divisional Superintendent R. Ferguson, Lyttelton Nursing Division; Lady Divisional Superintendent L. Conway, St. Matthew’s Nursing Division (Christchurch); Divisional Superintendent E. G. Gray, Kaiapoi Division; Ambulance Sisters M. Skirving and L. McIllwraith, Oamaru Nursing Division. Bar do service medal: Assistant Commissioner Reserve) A. O. Richardson, Wellington; Divisional Superintendent F. S. Bennington, Christchurch Railway Division ; Ambulance Sisters Al. _ Virtue and S. Davies, Christchurch Nursing Division. The fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the St. John Ambulance Brigade will take place in 1937, and the authorities at St. John’s Gate, London, have decided that the occasion shall be fittingly celebrated. Already a preliminary announcement has been sent out, requesting the attendance of a contingent from each Dominion and colony overseas. , , , . The announcement of the death in Wellington of Air. William Baker Fisher was made some time ago. He was well known as one of the founders in Dunedin of the St. John Ambulance Association, and had attained to the dignity of a Knight of Grace of the Venerable Order of St. John. At a meeting of the Chap-ter-General held at St. John’s Gate in November last special mention was made of the death of Air. Fisher by Major-Gen-eral the Earl of Scarborough, sub-prior, and a letter of sympathy has now been received from the headquarters of the order by Airs. Fisher. _ The Wellington Hospital Board has expressed its appreciation of the voluntary services which are given by ambulance sisters of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Wellington. Alenibers of the various nursing Divisions in Wellington take turn in attending at the Wellington, hospital on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and. while acquiring much useful training and information for themselves, enable a certain portion of the regular staff to be relieved.