“TREATED SHAMEFULLY”
AMBULANCE’S PROTEST
AN ACCOUNT FOR FREIGHT
(Per Press Association.) . WELLINGTON, this day. “We have been treated shamefully in this case, and we cannot let it go by,” said Mr, D. J. McGowan, the chairman, at a meeting of the Wellington district free ambulance, when the superintendent, Mr. F. Roffe, reported that a stretcher which had been loaned to ■ carry a patient from Wellington to Dunedin had been sent back freight collect to this port. The ambulance had to pay £1 Os lQd, and had been unable to obtain the reimbursement of the amount up to the present time. Mr. Roffe said that all the shipping and tram arrangements to transport the patient, a girl, to Dunedin, had been made by the free ambulance. The case was of. such a nature that the girt could not possibly be shifted from the stretcher, so pillows, bedding, and stretcher had been sent to Lyttelton by boat, and to Dunedin by train. A few days later they were .returned, and, greatly to his surprise, he found that the freight to Wellington from the south had to be paid.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18586, 21 December 1934, Page 5
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