A FREE SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1931, Page 14

A FREE SERVICE

AMBULANCE CONTRIBU-

TIONS

"Statements have been mado by public men that we should make a charge," said Mr. H. M. Jones, at. a meeting of tho Wellington Free Ambulance Board to-day, "but the experience of tho board has been tliat we are working on sound lines." He said that the experience of other bodies was that when charges were made for the use of the ambulance the money could not be collected. Under the present scheme the board was receiving more than it would if a charge were made, and he considered that the policy of the board was sound. Eeference had been made to the fact that the service attended the Racing Club's Meeting, and he wanted to say that there were no contributors more generous that the Racing Club and the sporting organisations. He did not think that there was a race meeting to which the ambulance had been that had not been followed by a cheque for £10'

The chairman (Mr. G. Mitchell) said that the contributions from sports bodies were much greater than if the board made a charge. It could not be suggested that the old, inhumane system should bo reverted to, whereby the money was secured first and the ambulance sent put aftprwards.