FIRST AID INSTRUCTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 221, 18 August 1937, Page 12

FIRST AID INSTRUCTION.

GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL. Members of the Palmerston North High School Board of Governors, last night, complimented, the principal of the Girls’ High School (Miss E. E. Stephen's) on her efforts towards having first aid classes made a regular part of the intermediate course. In her report to the hoard Miss Stephens said that when the department’s inspector (Mr Caradus) recently visited the school she brought up the matter of introducing practical first aid work into the school, not as an extra, hut as an integral part of the intermediate course for all forms, and obtained from him information about what is done in other girls’ schools. She had followed this up by direct inquiries about some of the courses carried out in theso schools, and hoped to have some concrete suggestions to put before the board next term. Every girl; said Miss Stephens, should have the opportunity to get at least a junior practical first aid certificate from school, whatever course she was taking, and this should be followed up by a senior course, perhaps soon after leaving school. Colonel J. H. Whyte considered that Miss Stephens’s idea was worthy of being followed up, and Mr G. Tremaine also stressed the value of first aid training.