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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY

| FAREWELL TO MR. E

RALPHS.

AMBULANCE BRIGADE EULOGISE.

PRESENTATION

Mr. Ralphs, you will be missed greatly and-impossible to replace. Substitutes there may be, but there can be but one "you."

In asking your acceptance of this token, I am confident that I

and") am conveying the sincere hearty good wishes of all present, in wishing you a long, happy and peaceful retirement, and that MADE.When you look upon this souvenir you will remember your friends the and well wishers across the water who are endeavouring to carry on the work inaugurated by your- self and maintaining the structure have so well and truly laid. the foundations of which you

As one speaker put it, hardest word to say, in any language is "Good-bye," and Hongkong's St. John Ambulance Brigade found it a difficult matter

to bid farewell to Mr. Edwin Ralphs, their Assistant Commis

You are bequeathing to this Brigade an heirloom which it sioner, at the Hongkong Hotel should be the privilege and roof garden yesterday afternoon. bounden duty of each member. The presentation of a handsome Officer, Vice Patron and Surgeon piece of silver to Mr. Ralphs was to pass on to auccessors unim- followed by him offering a shield paired.. for annual competition among the nursing section of the local move- ment.

The handsome silver tray with which Mr. Ralpha was presented bore the following Inscription:

I am betraying no secret when I tell you that Mr Ralphs is not severing his connexion with 18 entirely, for he has consented to

remain on our Roll as our, re- presentative in England.

We shall both know and feel that we have a friend and adviser who will be able to make personal representations to Head-| quarters in London when DCCA-

"Presented by the finance com- mittee, officers and members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Hongkong, to Mr. Edwin Ralphs, who has served for 15 years assion and necessity arise. assistant commissioner of the brigade."

Sented alongside Mr. Ralphs at the main table were Meaars. A. Morris, Ho Kon-tong, Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., Messrs. Li Yau-tsun, C.B.E., T. N. Chau, Wong Kwong-tin, Wong Kam-fuk, A. el Arculli, A. Savage, Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Messrs. Kwok Siu-lau, J. Ralston and Dr. T. W. Ware.

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The Presentation,"

None but one who has actually handled the work and intricacies of the Brigade knows of the multifarious duties entailed as Assistant Commissioner, duties

Mr. Ralphs' Reply. Mr. Ralphs, in reply, said: Mr. Morris, ladies and gentlemen- I have to thank you for your very kind words and to thank you all very warmly for the reception you have given me to-day and for. the very beautiful piece of silver you present to me on my departure. It is not easy for me to say fare- well, but it is yet more difficult when I meet you all face to face and receive such a demonstration of your goodwill as I now experi ence.

Not very long ago I addressed Ambulance Brigade has done in you on the work the St. John

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"Mr. Morris' Services. Lastly, I refer to Mr. Morris. I

of a special launch but it should Then we cannot in fact-go to the expense nobler-and no trouble!"

wonderfully good service he has rendered; I have gradually handed. I feel very keenly indeed my over the working of the Corps to not be difficult to co-operate with severance from this Corps, but I him and now he takes over full con- Government Ox shipping cont-j panies and so arrange that the shall, as Mr. Morris says, keep introl aa Officer in Charge of the Dis- constant touch with your work trict, and I have requested our across the harbour and transfersary, at our headquarters in Lou-eral Sir Havelock Charles, to pro- sick or injured may be transported and represent you, when neces-Chief Commissioner, Major-Gen- red to a Motor Ambulance with the minimum of discomfort.

mote him as early as may be to the rank of Assistant Commissioner, Public Health.

dar.

Thanks to Workers.

I know you will accord to Mr. Mor

Mr. A. Morris, who made the formal presentation on behalf of the Brigade members, Vice Patrons and members of the Finance Committee, said: Ladies and we are assembled to gentlemen, pay tribute to our friend" and Assistant Commissioner, on whom it has pleased H.3. the King to confer the highest rank of our order-Knight of Grace of the the training of men to become Harbour,

Our normal work is essentially transport of sick people across the offering you a lot of advice! You Venerable Order of St. John of expert in First Aid and of women This question should not be dif-where-To be good is noble; to or to or from ships. know Mark Twain said some- Jerusalem-an honour coveted by to become expert in both First Aid ficult to solve; we need not-and shew others how to be good is /need hot say anything about the many, but possessed by few: and and Home Nursing. to present him with this silver have the drill and the discipline tray as a memento of the work he which it entails,, discipline which has done for the St. John Ambu- is valuable not. only in itself. but lance Brigade, and the St. John in that it enables us to work singly Ambulance Association, in the or in Companies, and creates a district of Hongkong and South spirit of esprit de corps and at the same time of individual responsi- bility.

But of all this you are well aware. Then we have taken up vaccination work and during the last two seasons we have Now going back to what I have The Corps could not possibly ris the loyal support you have al- vaccinated over four hundred said about an extension of your have grown in strength and in ways given to me and I look for thousand people Hongkong, in nativities in the matter of public efficiency as it has done, had I not ward confidently to a great deve- for many years performed single the New Territory and the health. This can very usefully be had the help and co-operation of lopment of the Corps under his handed, without hope or expecta- adjacent islands. In addition, a done by a close co-operation with all of you present to-day. We able command. tion of reward by our Assistant considerable amount of lecturing the public health authorities of have the active Ambulance and I leave the Corps and the Colony Commissioner.

has been done, the ignorant the Colony; carry on the work you Nursing workers, who appear front with profound regret; I had hoped. classes being addressed--in their have done, but further assist the time to time on public parades, to stay on until early next year, However, it has been a labour own tongue, of course-on matters. authorities in educating the and who are often seen at work as requested-and very kindly 80- of love in the fullest sense-a of vaccination, dysentery, cholera, ignorant in matters of hygiene and in public, but we have many who by Government, but on medical ad- work for the benefit of the com- malaria, etc. These lectures, health, help to remove any pre-work behind the scenes; of these vice and with the consciousness munity and humanity, the allevia- delivered, as I can testify, with judices that may still exist and I mention particularly the Finance that age alas may not be defied, for tion of suffering, a work not to fluency and emphasis, and illus- convince your hearers that the Committee; then we have our sur-though it is true that one should be assessed in terms of cash, nor trated with charts and diagrams efforts of the health authorities, geons, among them four ladies, who measure one's age rather by the

latter yet by visible and immediate some of the

fearsome and your work also, are entirely all give their services free and work increasing strength of the spirit results, but one the effects of and blood-curdling enough have disinterested, and lead them in very hard indeed. I could recite than by the decreasing strength of which are transmitted through carried conviction to your hearers. realise that in helping you they dozens of names of our supporters the body, there comes a time when the ages and benefits children's But I want now to suggest what are helping themselves. To do all who help us in manifold ways, but the latter may no longer be ignored, children,.

has been long in my mind, and this effectively you will require to propose to mention only three therefore I bow to the inevitable, that is an extension and develop increase your numbers; you have One is my old friend Dr. Koch, who and make my bow! I am confident that his self-ment of your activities in the now over 300 active and effective has worked with me as our Chief

I cannot express the gratitude imposed tasks have been a source matter of public health, now that members, but to carry out health Surgeon from the beginning and of much happiness. Mr. Ralphs, you have shown that you can carry work adequately more will be still labours for the cause; the sec-I feel towards you all for your con- you have laboured for the good of out such work in addition to your needed. I would here mention ond is Mr. Ho Kom-tong, who also stant kindness and support, and others and your labours have normal activities..

that Cadet companies may now be has been a tower of strength and lastly for this generous gift; but not been in vain.

formed in connexion with the who, in what he terms his old age even without it I could never for Corps; boys of the age of 14 may (though I hope that if I live to get the St. John Ambulance Brigade be recruited and given a modified reach his present age I may be half in Hongkong and all who worked course of training, and at the age as vigorous as he) Mr. Ho, I say with me ao loyally and happily in of 18 may pass automatically into in his old age, arrayed himself in the Corps. Ladies and Gentlemen,

One uniform-which I know He again I thank you.--(Applause.)

"I have taken upon myself a the Ambulance Brigade. such company, fifty strong, has has found eminently uncomfortable

appears regularly and pleasing duty to perform before. just been formed and I hope many and others will join, for the members, valiantly on parades, as an example I sit down," Mr. Ralphe con- while learning to become useful to the younger members, You will cluded. "We have an efficiency nowledge and shove all learn the hearing that Mr. Ho Kom-tong nually among the men's divisions eitizens, gain much valuable all join in my profound regrets on shield which is competed for an

never been any value of discipline and obedience, resigns to-day his rank as District but there has

qualities which, I fear, are not Officer; like myself, he begins to similar shield in the nursing always conspicuous among the feel that he is too old for the ac divisions. With Mr: Ho Kom-tong's youth of to-day.

tive duties the office demands; to permission I am presenting the Well, ladies and gentlemen, my great relief, however, he is re- corps with a shield to be known rise for the purpose of thanking taining his position as Chairman as the Ho Kom-tong Shield for you briefly-and I find myself of the Finance Committee and will competition between the nursing doing that easiest of all things--leontinue his interest in the work. (Continued on Page 3.j

·Tried and Trusted 'Friend.

Motör Ambulance Service.

First, there is the Motor Ladies and gentlemen, we are Ambulance service. We have, a6 losing a valued, tried and trusted you know, a very fine Motor friend: one who has listened with Ambulance presented to us by a sympathetic ear and who has Miss Chan Yuk Hing a few months ago. The Ambulance is working, been ready ever to assist to the but we are greatly handicrpped by utmost of his powers. His work the lack of a garage. We hope to for this Brigade dates back to erect a garage, with quarters for 1914, from which year the or- two attendants, · so that the ganisation has grown in strength Ambulance shall be at the service a mere handful to above of the public at any hour of the 300. His connexion with the St. day or night. Given & Buitable John Ambulance Association is site, the scheme can quickly be almost life long, for before coming carried out. At the same time, East more than 35 years ago Mr. and in connexion with the Motor Ralphs was connected with Ambulance Service, I wish you to Ambulance work in England. take up the question of the

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