TWO AMBULANCES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 78, 28 September 1940, Page 13

TWO AMBULANCES

CHEMISTS' CONTRIBUTION

In recent months pharmaceutical chemists throughout New Zealand have raised £1467 10s 6d among themselves for the purchase of two ambulances for service with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The cheque was received by the secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board and has since been forwarded by him to the Secretary of the Treasury. The Treasury Department has advised that the Army Department will bs requested to arrange for the ambulances to be lettered or inscribed as a presentation from the pharmaceutical chemists of New Zealand in accordance with their wishes. Over 90 per cent., of the chemists responded to the appeal, which was. handled by Mr. C. J. Henty, honorary secretary of the Canterbury district of the Chemists' Service Guild of New Zealand, and Mr. Charles A. McKay, who was the organiser. Mr. Henty. in his circular to members, pointed out that one extra ambulance might be the means of saving life. He referred jto the case of a pharmacist who, when seriously wounded during the last war, was for two and a half days without hospital attention because of overj crowded ambulances and Red Cross I trains, •