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Note: much of this film is out of focus.
[B&W] Pan over St John’s building; the motto written above the door (‘Pro Utilitate Hominum’); plaque reading “St John Ambulance Brigade District Headquarters Canterbury and West Coast”; women in nurses uniforms posing for the camera (with finger puppets?); men in St John’s uniforms and other men and women milling around outside a building.
Pennant reading “Dominion Cadet Competitions”; young men in uniforms, being inspected and drilled in a courtyard; shots of various St John’s men and women milling around the courtyard; having lunch; cadets and nurses standing in ranks.
Cadets perform first aid on volunteer ‘patients’, watched over by judges; St John’s nurses posing with a St John’s officer; close up of the insignia on the women’s shoulders; shots of afternoon tea laid out; shots of people eating.
St John’s nurses performing first aid (and being judged); St John’s officers moving patients out of an ambulance.
“ANNUAL CHURCH PARADE’; St John’s members marching in the street.
“WE GET AROUND”; camera pans over programmes placed on the floor (events St John’s officers attend?); St John’s officers getting off a bus; motorcar racing; St John’s officers and women on a hillside; and officer assisting an elderly woman (?); a programme for the ‘ -Auto Cycle Club New Zealand Grand Prix’ (part of the title is obscured); pan over the car park at the motorbike races; shots of the motorbikes racing; two children playing.
A bride and groom (Paula and Les?) coming out of a church, posing for photos and getting covered in confetti.
[COL] “THE MAINLAND WAS THERE”; a tree in blossom; limited view from a plane as it takes off (very indistinct images); a bear(?); (brief) view of a street filmed from a moving car; view from a boat; St John’s cadets and nurses milling around; exterior of the St John’s building with St John’s staff outside, eating and socialising; a boat called ‘Lyttelton’; a ferry; people getting off a boat (?).
“THESE LITTLE SHIPS”; small yachts (p class?) being sailed in the harbour; shots from one of the boats under sail.
Last picture frame.