SPANISH POLITICS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1936, Page 12

SPANISH POLITICS

AMBULANCE PROJECT

A MISUNDERSTANDING

1 (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Referring to Bishop Brodie's strictures at Christchurch concerning the proposal to send an ambulance unit from New Zealand to Spain, Mr. H. Ferguson, who presided at the Dunedin meeting, stated today that it was a complete misunderstanding. It was plainly decided at the first meeting that the matter must not be dealt with on political lines, and in his opening remarks he had touched on the political issue merely to show the futility of approaching the matter on such lines and not as a matter of policy. A week ago Dunedin had passed a motion similar to the Christchurch one, that medical assistance be sent by the Red Cross or the Order of St. John under the direction of the League for the benefit primarily of the civilian population. A prominent member of the Order of St. John stated that anything done would presumably be done in co-opera-tion with headquarters at St. John's Gate, London, or with the international Red Cross organisation at Geneva.

The report of the Christchurch meeting referred to appears on page 11.