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Efficient Handling of Accident Victims
' By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, Last Night. The efforts of the Minister of Trans. port, Hon. E. Semple^ to reduce to a minimum accidonts on highways, are to be supplemented in Auckland by a uiove for the maximum efficiency in hadling persons injured in accidents. A. special course n. first aid, -.vhich commenced this week, is being attended by r.-U'ic inspecto.-s from ihe Av.ckkin] Ciiy Council avd the Trans .-,rt Dapan xi tnt, Autoinobile Ajsociation panols and school teachers. Lectures are being delivered- by Dr. Watson, divisional surgeon of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. "This is orJ.r a starc, ancl I hope it will be followed by all drivers of passtnger vehicles," said Mr S. E. Langstcne, secrofcary-manager of the St. John Ambulance, "In America it is csljmated that in .87 per ccn(. of acci. dcu L cases Ihe injuries of viotnna are a^grnvatod through carelees haudling."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 4
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154FIRST-AID CLASSES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 4
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