FREE AMBULANCE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 16, 13 October 1927, Page 10

FREE AMBULANCE

NEW HOME BEING PREPARED OPENING NEXT MONTH The work of remodelling the Old Navals Boatshed for the headquarters of the new City Free Ambulance Service is under way, and yesterday the superintendent, Mr. F. W. Rolfe, moved into his quarters on the upper floor. The staff of the service has come into being, four bearers having been engaged to commence duty a few days before the new station is opened. The main work of the remodelling of the building has been the laying of a concrete ground floor, repainting, and partitioning off the interior to form various rooms. Downstairs there is to be a bed-room, in which two men will always sleep. Upstairs is the stiperintendent’s office, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and bedrooms. The ground floor is practically devoted to the large garage for the cars of the service. These are six in number, and it is hoped that all can be held in such positions that any one mav be run out without interference with the others. Meantime, however, the Ambulance Committee seeks the use of the old fish-market, which abuts the Navals Boatshed, and which can be converted into a car-wash-ing place, and used also for the garaging of the two oldest cars of the service, which will not be in use to the same extent as the others.

The committee is making arrangements for the acquisition of the two new cars.

It is anticipated that the whole place will be in order and ready for opening by the first week in November.