DUNEDIN ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15236, 29 December 1942, Page 4

DUNEDIN ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

ANN IVERSTRY CELEBRATED IN LONDON. LONDON, Dec. 22. The 50th anniversary of the foundation • of the Dunedin ambulance division was celebrated at Oversea's House yesterday. The Chief Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Overseas Brigade, Colonel J. L. Sleeman, who was Director of Military Training in New Zealand in the last war, organised the gathering. He said New Zealand was providing a larger percentage of ambulance members a 1000 of population than any part of the overseas Empire. Messages of congratulation to Dunedin were read from Lord Bledisloe, tlie New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr Jordan, and also from the Australian, ’South African and Indian High Commissioners. Canada and Newfoundland also sent tributes. Lord Clarendon, chancellor of the Order, said New Zealand bad pioneered the overseas brigade, Dunedin being formed in 1882 and South Arrica in 1893. Lady Mountbatten. who is the lady superintendent of the Order, voiced greetings to Now from |50,00p ambulance drivers in Britain. She recalled her visit to New Zealand in 1920 and said her memories included toheroa sou]) and blue cod.