CAMBRIDGE AMBULANCE
FIRST CALL ANSWERED ACCIDENT AT HORAHORA [Br telegraph—owl* correspondent] CAMBRIDGE, Monday An accident at Horahora, where two motor-cars collided near the service station, provided the first call for the new ambulance at the St. John Ambulance Association depot, which was opened on Sunday. The superintendent, Mr. P. T. Glanville, received the call early in the evening and returned to his home, where the ambulance was still being housed. With Superintendent J. Watson Cumming. of Auckland, who had been in Cambridge for the ceremony, he drove to Horahora, a distance of 10 miles. It was found that the driver of one car, Mr. William Pass, of Putaruru, had suffered a fracture of the right kneecap. The other car was driven by Mr. T. S. Reynolds, of Hamilton, and ho and two passengers escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Mr. Pass was taken in the ambulance to the Waikato Hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23213, 6 December 1938, Page 10
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