50 Years Of First Aid
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Exams In Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 10.
IT had been said that St. John work started in Fiji in 1929 but the Rev.
A. R. Tippett later pointed out that First Aid certificates were awarded in Fiji nearly 50 years ago and added that three Fijians were the first “non-white” people of any race to be awarded certificates.
The highest marks in that historic examination were secured by Wilisoni Lagi, who in 1905 entered training as a Native Medical Practitioner, was later Fiji’s first medical missionary in Papua, and is now spending his old age in re tirement in Fiji.
Mr. Tippett said that the movement may have been interrupted in subsequent years, but adds that it was in operation in 1904-5 and owed its inception to a “Hygienic Mission” started by the then Governor in 1898.
MORE than 100 first aid and homes nursing certificates have beenn awarded in Fiji in the last 20 years, and to-day the Association’s work isa making steady progress, said Dr. J. M.. 1 Cruikshank, Director of Medical Servicesa and Assistant Commissioner of the St..: John Ambulance Association, at the re cent annual presentation ceremony aU which the awards were presented by Ladyy Preeston, Lady District Suoerintendentl in Fiji.