“AUCKLAND OVERDUE”
FREE AMBULANCE SERVICE HEALTH MINISTER’S INTEREST (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, To-day. That Auckland is long over-due for a free ambulance is the opinion of the new Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stall worthy, after consulting Mr. F. Roffe, superintendent of the Wellington Free Ambulance Service Board. The Minister believes the undertaking should be a patiorjU one. Mr. C. Norwood, speaking at a meeting of the Ambulance Board, said be had interviewed the Minister of Health with regard to the operations of the service. The Minister had been so interested in the scheme that he had asked for information of value from a national viewpoint. Mr. Stallwortliy took the view that organisations of the kind should be capable of extension to other parts of New Zealand, and he undertook to give the matter bis attention. Captain Galloway said the St. John Ambulance was doing good work in Auckland. Mr. Norwood said he had emphasised to the Minister what could bo done with better facilities and equipment. “Wo need worry no more about the service,” said Mr. G. Mitchell; “it 1 ? absolutely established now.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 7
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