RED CROSS COMMISSIONER
A NEW APPOINTMENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 4. With the rank of major, Mr Clarence Meachen, secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association in Wellington, has been appointed Red Cross commissioner with the 2nd N.Z.E.F., succeeding Major G. W. Tweedy, who is returning to New Zealand after a long term of service overseas. The appointment was made by the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society, agent of the National Patriotic Fund Board for sick and wounded and prisoners of war. and was announced today by the chairman of the council, Sir James Elliott. Major Meachen, he said, would leave shortly lor overseas to assume his new duties.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25735, 5 January 1945, Page 2
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