NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY CORPS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 180, 25 April 1919, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND VETERINARY CORPS

PRAISE FROM MAJOR-GENERAL J. MOORE. A high tribute to the valuable services rendered by the Naur.''Zealand Veterinary Corps in. franco has been forwarded toy Lieutenant-General. Sir A. J. Godley to the Minister of Defenco. The tvibuto is paid by Major-General J. Moore, Director of Veterinary Services, British Expeditionary Force 'in France. In a letter to General Godley, under date February 5,. General Moore states: "Before the demobilisation of th» New Zealand Division ami the New Zealand Section of No. 4 Veterinary Hospital at Calais I should like to express my appreciation of the excellent service rendered by the Mew Zealand Veterinary Corps. The record of the Division, from a veterinary point of view, all through the war has compared most favourably with other divisions. The difficulties of active service have been surmounted iu (i highly Creditable fashion, and the iimnner m which officers and other ranks havo stuck to their duties is beyond all praise. No better 'work lias been done anywhere than by the small New Zealand Veterinary Hospital attached' to No. 4 Veterinary Hospital, Calais. The work carried out has always beeu of a high standard, and it is a model of efficiency and good order. .1 am glad that the New Zealand Veterinary Corps has had an opportunity of being complete in all matters of veterinary organisation in the field, and that it. has proved its mettle. Without question it has justly merited the goodwill and high regard of the Dominion to which it belongs. Thoroughly identifying itself with the Army Veterinary Servieo, British Expeditionary Force, the parting i 9 ono full of regrets; at the same time there remains a deep sense of gratitude for all the splendid assistance it lim rendered.— (Signed) J. Moore, Major-Goneral, Director of Veterinary Services.'"