The remote Canterbury harbour hamlet of Akaroa, population 650, came to a crux a year ago. “If someone didn’t step up and say they’d be station manager, we might not have had an ambulance service,” Jan Bourke told the Herald. That wasn’t acceptable – Akaroa’s summer population booms to 10,000, especially with cruise ships docking, but the number of St John staff do not increase. When Mrs Bourke heard about the need, she stepped up and became St John Ambulance station manager. She’s hardly had time off since.
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