ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17122, 18 April 1921, Page 6

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE.

DISTRICT OHuW *ABAD&|||| . The members of tlie Chriitehurch Wpf| i district of the St. John Ambultnco ®f|f| gad© held their annual church partf§f| .at tho Cathedral yesterday mornwjilS The following divisions tm repressittt|l ed, Major A. L. Gray (district supmljfS | tondeflt)_ being in •olmrge:—Uuil%« j| church Ambulance, lUilway Avorwide, .Ucc&enham, Cbrotcbug^fg ana Selwyn Is urSuig. There woro Captain W. AW Mcltinney (nip g sistnnt commissioner), Mr* VVhittatqrA | (district lady Kupcrintendeut), Air ; & U. iihodes (president of the iUwfe® tion), and Mrs itfjodas, Mr H. uouua (vicoproßident), and Messrs H. J. Jfojrij; dinott, and .J. JLrfush* qnd Miss Jb\ Iki Cooper, who represented tho corps itwf| The parade tvoa in full uniform, rail members marched up Worcester from the Brigade'rooms to the ':j "dial, where they occupied ilio tank! Boats. There were oltocethor over members on parade. *|fS| Th« service, which waa fully rhofl ' r , % was from "Martin in 0." Tins antral A was "Blessed are tlio Merciful" (Hildllt I His Lordship Bishop Julius spoko fw the test, "Inasmuch as ye iutve door I® unto one of these, ye have dono it UMfrj® Me." Ho said that tho work of iwl

Order of St. John was one of practsw Christianity. It was once renowned fig its extraordinary valour, but it wasM edming a greater name for its cxtiwg dinory works of ifcercy. Tho Order jf< St. John was well worth fn New Zealand, and ho rojoiccd to that the organisation in this counttflj was, in proportion to tho population, iif largest of its kind ift the world.