ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1937, Page 11

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

HONOURS AND AWARDS __*__ / The following honours and awards were announced or presented at the annual meeting of the Wellington centre of the St. John Ambulance Association last night, the presentations being made by the Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop):— / Honorary life members (elected by the Ambulance Committee, St. John's' Gate, Clerkenwell, London,! in recognition of valuable services rendered): Drs. Allan Tennent, W. H. Blinman Bull, Sidney Harcourt Arthur, Arthur E. A. Palmer, E. Walter Richards, John Plimmer, W. F. Shirer, Bertram E. Wright, Robert Stout, Bernard J. Dudley, lan B. Ewart, H. Graham Robertson, C. Gordon Kemp.1 v First-aid certificates (city traffic inspectors): Inspectors Henry William Weller, Claude Francis Petherick, Frank Harper McKechnie, Leslie Francis Moss, David Burns, Winfred Horsfall, Thomas William Jeffrey, William George Evans, and Hamilton Stewart Page. Medallion: Mrs. Katie Gay. The following honours were announced:—Order of St. John, Knights of Grace, Sir James Elliott and Mr. J. W. Jack; Dame of Grace, Mrs. T. H. Lowry (Hawke's Bay); Commanders, Dr. W. Young, Mr. C. C. Falconer, and Mrs. Balcombe-Brown; Officers, Dr. W. M. Watt, Mr. F. W. Ward, Mrs. Gaby, and Miss Lambie; Serving Brothers, Drs. F. W. B. Smith, T. H. Arthur, and C. G. Kemp, and Messrs. J. C. Cooper, T. W. Roffe, J. D. G. Tripe, and G. H. Mackley; Serving Sisters, Miss M. T. Griffiths and Mesdames M. S. Jack and G. A. Luke. The following Wellington Ambulance Brigade awards were presented:—Service medals, for twelve years' efficient service, Miss A. E. *Bates (Wellington Nursing Division) and Mrs. C. E. Cooper (Wellington Suburban Nursing Division); bars to service medals, Mrs. E. Barltrop (district officer) second bar, Mrs. A. Helyer (Wellington South Nursing Division) second bar, Mrs. McWhannell (Wellington Suburban Nursing Division) first bar, and Miss M. Atkins (Wellington Suburban Nursing Division) first bar. Five years' service certificates, Mrs. E. L. Poad (Miramar Cadet Nursing Division), Mrs. E. Newman, Miss E. M. Emerson, and Mrs. M. A. Lancaster (Wellington South Nursing Division); officers' warrants of appointment, Messrs. E. B. Gilberd and C. Meachen (district officers), Miss G. T. Wells (divisional superintendent), Mrs. E. B. Helyer (nursing officer), Misses N. Powles and O. Tracey (ambulance officers), Mr. E. Zambra (divisional superintendent), Mr. C. Binns (ambulance officer), Miss L. A. Bozard (cadet officer), Messrs. C. A. Wilson-Grant and B. Shields (cadet superintendents), and Messrs. S. Williard and H. Marshall (cadet officers).