INSPECTION HELD

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1940, Page 11

INSPECTION HELD

FOUR HUNDRED VOLUNTARY WORKERS

PARADE THROUGH CITY

Although the unfavourable weather conditions resulted in the abandonment of the outdoor inspection of members of the Wellington Red Cross Society Voluntary Aids and Women's Transport Service, which was to have been held in the St. Patrick's College grounds on Saturday afternoon, approximately 400 voluntary workers were inspected in the drill Hall at Buckle Street byBrigadier N. McD. Weir, officer commanding the Central Military District. Miss L. G. Small, central controller of the Voluntary Aids, met the official party and escorted the officers on the round of inspection. Accompanying Brigadier Weir were Mr. C. H. Chapman, M.P., Wellington chairman of the Red Cross Society, Miss M. I. Lambie, director of the Division of Nursing; Miss E. P. Tennant, director of the Red Cross Voluntary Aids of New Zealand, Miss I. Willis, matron in chief of the Army Nursing Service, and Miss A. Kane, patron of the Wellington Voluntary Aids Detachments. After the inspection the- official guests assembled on the steps of the National War Memorial Carillon, where Brigadier Weir took the salute. The voluntary aids were led by the Fort Dorset Band, and the women's transport sections by the Wellington Caledonian Pipe Band. The parade followed a route along "Buckle Street, along Cambridge Terrace to Courtenay Place, and then along Manners Street and Lower and Cuba Streets to the Town Hall. The parade was under the control of the Central Commandant, Miss Dorothy Cooper (women's) and Mr. C. R. Harkness (men's), and the transport services were controlled by Ma O. V. Hole.