VALUABLE GIFTS
Travelling Hospital And Two Ambulances
ORDER OF ST. JOHN Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, March 19. “Our order is deeply indebted to those men and women of goodwill we call our benefactors who have endowed us so richly that we might be enabled to carry out our humanitarian work,” said Canon Coats when speaking at a special service attended by the commandery ,and members of the St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade at St. Matthew’s Church. “Only within the last few days two splendid gifts have been made to our order,” he said. "The happiness clubs in the Auckland area have given to the order what is to be known as a trailer ambulance or travelling hospital, a splendid gift into which has been put the goodwill of thousands of women and men in and around the city.”
There was also a deep sense of gratitude to Mrs. Bertha Wilson, who bad intended to provide a new ambulance and trailer in commemoration of her ■father, the late Sir Edwin Michelson. However, as the trailer had been given by the happiness clubs she had decided to give to the order two ambulances. These constituted a splendid and opportune gift.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 5
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199VALUABLE GIFTS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 150, 21 March 1939, Page 5
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