14″ XL Large Giant Pull Bow Pew Bows Wedding Decorations Christmas Gift Wrap Hot Pink Holographic
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14″ xl pull bow hot pink holographic 1/ea pull string bow these 14 inch giant bows are easy to use, convenient to ship, and will look perfect on the ends of your ceremonial ribbon.
Price: $7.88
- Pull String Instant Bow
- 14″ Length and Total Width
- 14″ XL Giant pull bow decoration
- Polysatin
Australia map with New Zealand Germany Texas etc. In Charleville Royal Flying Doctor Service Office.
A great map that compares the land area of Australia to New Zealand, Japan, Texas, Britain and Ireland and Germany.
Royal Flying Doctor Service. This service was the lifeline to life for so many people in the isolated outback of Australia. Along with the school of the air these two services provided so much help and assistance to life in the outback. The service all began with Alfred Traeger and the Reverend John Flynn. Traeger’s parents were SA born and his German grandparents had arrived in SA in 1848. Traeger, born in 1895 attended Balaklava School and then the School of Mines where he studied engineering. In 1923 he started work at Hannan Brothers in Adelaide doing electrical repair work. He was fascinated by radio. He built his own radio and established Traegers Transceivers Pty Ltd. In 1926 he started working for John Flynn on radio transmitters for the Northern Territory. Flynn had already seen the potential of radio transmitters for medical assistance to remote outback stations. He adapted a bicycle pedal system to generate power to operate a basic radio transmitter. The first of these pedal transmitters was used in QLD in 1928 around Cloncurry. Meantime John Flynn had raised funds and he had the support of Hudson Fysh, the founder of Qantas, H McKay a wealthy industrialist, and George Simpson a doctor, to launch his idea of a flying doctor service able to respond to calls of distress from pedal radio transmitters on isolated stations. Qantas supplied the first aircraft for the service. The service was launched in 1928 with a Flying Doctor Service based in Cloncurry. The title “royal” came after the Queen’s visit to Australia in 1954. Within a few years there was also a FDS base in Charters Towers and Charleville from 1943. Dr Allan Vickers returned to Charleville from a FDS base at Port Headland to established the Charleville base in 1943. Charleville serviced and still does, an area bigger than the United Kingdom. In the early 1950s Prime Minister Robert Menzies recognised the RFDS as “the single greatest contribution to the effective settlement of the far distant country” and the service expanded rapidly across the major states. By the 1960s the service was using it own aircraft, pilots and engineers. Today the service owns 61 aircraft operating from 21 RFDS bases across Australia. What an achievement of Rev. Flynn.
John Flynn lived from 1880 to 1951. He was a Presbyterian minister. He became head of the Presbyterian Australia Inland Missions service working in the outback across SA, NT and QLD and WA. In 1911 he established a nursing hostel in Oodnadatta. He went on to establish nursing centres at Port Augusta, Oodnadatta, Port Hedland, Broome, Pine Creek near Alice Springs and Cloncurry. Whilst doing this he increased his nursing staff from one nurse to 23 nurses so he had infrastructure in place for the aerial medical service by 1923. He made sure from 1911 that his nursing stations and hospitals were open to Aboriginal people. In the early 1920s he started doing radio work and offering radio medical advice and he employed Alfred Traeger from 1926. In 1925 he first proposed an aerial medical service. His friendship with Sir Hudson Fysh the founder of Qantas helped him achieved his goal. On a personal level Flynn was devoted to his work and did not marry until 1932 at age 51 when he wed his devoted secretary. He was knighted and in 1942 his medical service was renamed the Flying Doctor Service. The Royal part was added in 1954. Flynn died of cancer in Sydney in 1951. His ashes were taken to Alice Springs and 5 years later the John Flynn Memorial Church was opened there. There is a John Flynn Museum and Gallery in Cloncurry where it all started.
Distance Education Centre.
This centre was formerly called the School of the Air. It provides a school service to over 200 children in remote properties. The first school of the air was established in Alice Springs in 1951. It was design to overcome the isolation of station children who waited weeks for correspondence lessons to come by mail. Few of these children ever had any physical contact with their teachers back in Adelaide or Alice Springs or some other outback centre.
The school of the air piggy backed on the radio system installed on stations for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. It was a huge step forward in educating isolated outback children. There are now about 15 school of the air centres in outback Australia with the most, five, being in QLD. SA has one school of the air in Port Augusta. The origins of the school of the air lead back to Miss Adelaide Miethke of Adelaide who was vice president of the SA branch of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. She had formerly been a teacher. In 1946 she conceived the idea of using the RFDS station radios for school lessons. In 1948 the Alice Springs RFDS began broadcasting the first lessons on its radios but the service was not officially established there until 1951. A few years later the service began in Broken Hill and then spread across QLD and WA and the Northern Territory. Adelaide Miethke was born in Manoora near Burra in 1881. She was a pupil teacher in 1899 and attending the new training college in 1903-04 near the Central Market. In 1916 she became the first female vice president of the SA Public School Teachers’ Union. From 1915 she taught at Woodville High School and completed her BA at the University of Adelaide in 1924. She was the founding president of the Women’s Teachers League which was one of the founding supporting organisations of the WEA when it embarked on adult education courses in 1917. She moved on to become an inspector of schools and the president of the Women’s Centenary Council of SA in 1936 when the state celebrated its 100 years of white settlement. She published her theories on the importance of education for girls and retired from the Education Department in 1941 at age 60. Her retirement was busy with charity work, fund raising and executive roles in several organisations, including the SA branch of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. She died in her home at Woodville and was buried at Cheltenham. Her lifelong friend was Phoebe Watson who rose from the ranks of pupil-teacher in 1892 to Senior Lecturer at Adelaide Teachers College by 1923. Phoebe worked on many of the same committees and charities as Adelaide Miethke.
By denisbin on 2013-08-18 02:16:03