MOTOR AMBULANCES WHAT NEW ZEALAND IS DOING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 57, 9 March 1915, Page 4

MOTOR AMBULANCES WHAT NEW ZEALAND IS DOING.

On the subject of the supply of motor ambulances for the Expeditionary Forces the Hon. J. Allen has issued the following statement: — "Quite early in the day the Defence Department ordered 14 motor ambulances at a cost of £7000. I was advised at the time that these would be sufficient for our requirements. After that order had been placed, the Hawkes Bay people subscribed close on £4000 for more motor ambulances. With this money seven motor ambulances have been ordered, and the vehicles are to be placed at the disposal of the British Red Cross Society^- until we want them. In addition to these Mr. and Mrs. Beetham, former residents of New Zealand, now in London, presented a motor ambulance, and that one, as far as I know, is in Egypt at the present time. Another has been presented by Mr. Firth, of Christchurch. It is coming from Turin, I believe, to Trentham, to be used there for the transport of sick men, for it must be remembered that we have 4000 men at Trentham, aud we must look after the men there as well as at the front. In Dunedin some other people wanted to give another ambulance, but •since I have informed them that we have enough, they have decided to vote their money to some other purpose. The fact is that we have enough m6tor ambulances for all our requirements, and we could not possibly ask the New Zealand public to supply us with any more."