Ambulance Appeal

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28630, 5 July 1958, Page 11

Ambulance Appeal

Turn thousand letters will be posted next Monday to the professional and commercial community of Christchurch asking for financial assistance to the St. John Ambulance Association. This annual appeal has always been important, but it is even more so now, because the Canterbury and West Coast centre of the association is being urged to institute a charge system for its services. It does not wish to do so if the present free ambulance service is practicable, but costs are rising all the time. “We are doing otir best to retain the present system on behalf of the needy, but unless we have more voluntary contributions we may not be able to continue,” said the secretary of the association (Major-General G. B. , Parkinson).

These atrium flats—to be built by the Ministry of Works in Clyde road, Riccarton—take their name from, and owe something of their design to an ancient Roman style of architecture.

The atrium of a Roman house was a central court, open to the sky, into which the other rooms opened, and which itself was used as the principle living apartment.

In this block, designed by Mr F. H. Newman, housing architect to the ministry, the court is a walled yard which gives the tenants of each of the four flats privacy from their neighbours.