BAN ON ST. JOHN TOUR
Chief Commissioner Explains Decision (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 12. Brigadier J. M. Mitchell, chief commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, today replied to Otago complaints that he had forbidden a trip to Australia by a party of ambulance and nursing cadets. He said that two years ago a 25-year-old junior unmarried officer in Dunedin decided that he would take a party of 40 cadets, boys and girls 15 to 16 years old, for a month’s holiday in Australia at Christmas, 1959. He was to be in charge and an unmarried woman aged 21 was to be chaperon. Brigadier Mitchell said the junior officer was guilty of flouting instructions by arranging the tour in the name of St. John without the knowledge of Dunedin and Dominion headquarters. In March, 1958, Brigadier Mitchell informed the officer that the excursion could not be recognised as a St. John visit because it was merely a holiday tour and its members were not representatives of any St. John unit. Brigadier Mitchell said his action in forbidding the tour under the name of St. John had been confirmed by the priory chapter at its annual meeting on October 9. He had not forbidden it as a private tour.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29024, 13 October 1959, Page 14
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