AMBULANCE UNIT

Southland Times, Issue 24879, 20 October 1942, Page 4

AMBULANCE UNIT

Gift Of Invercargill Resident The gift of a fully-equipped, fourbed mobile ambulance has been made to the Army authorities by Miss Elizabeth Bellamy, a retired school teacher, of 95 Thames street, Invercargill. The ambulance, which is already being constructed in Dunedin, will cost, it is believed, about £6OO. It will be for the use of the New Zealand forces overseas. When it is completed it will be presented to the Army authorities on behalf of the donox- by the Mayor of Invercargill, Mr A. Wachner. Miss Bellamy stated yesterday that she decided on a gift of an ambulance unit when she read that Mrs J. Sutherland Ross, of Dunedin, had given a similar unit to the Army authorities. “I thought that Invercargill should do something in that direction,” Miss Bellamy said. “I feel that it will be an extra link between myself and many of my former pupils of whom I am very proud.” The South School was among the schools in which Miss Bellamy taught during her career as a teacher. Miss Bellamy, it may be recalled, gave £lOOO to the Southland Museum, though it was only last May at the official opening of the museum, and about a year after the gift had been made, that Miss Bellamy was persuaded to allow her name to be made public as the donor.