SCHOOL GIRLS’ SUCCESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 13

SCHOOL GIRLS’ SUCCESS

FIRST AID EXAMINATIONS 80 PER CENT. OF PASSES AUCKLAND Girls’ Grammar established a record difficult to eclipse, at the recent St. John Ambulance first aid examinations. From 106 who attended first aid lectures there was not a single failure. No fewer than 86 passed in the first class with a pei'centage of SO of the maximum points. All 25 girls who attended the homenursing lectures were successful, no fewer than 24 passing in the first class. These facts were related at a meeting of the St. John Ambulance Committee in Auckland yesterday, over which Mr. C. J. Tunks presided. A report dealing with the year’s activities stated that first aid and homenursing classes had been held at the ambulance station, Auckland and Epsom Girls’ Grammar Schools, St. Cuthbert’s College, St. Mary’s High School, and at Epsom, Onehunga, Otahuhu, Westfield, Chelsea, Silverdale, Huntly, Hamilton, Whangarei and Gisborne, the number attending the lectures having been 754, most of whom passed the examinations. First aid lectures were given to employees of the Railway Department at Auckland, Newmarket, Frankton Junction, Te Aroha and Taumarunui. The number attending was 282, making a grand total of 1,027. From January 1 to August 31 district nurses had paid 3,952 visits to poor patients and had given skilled attention to 548 out-patients at the ambulance station. The ambulance transport officers removed 710 patients to or from the hospitals or their homes and rendered first aid to 1,577 patients at the wharf ambulance station. The distance travelled by the motor ambulances amounted to 5,296