RACEHORSE NAMED.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 456, 14 June 1937, Page 4

RACEHORSE NAMED.

: The name Verey Lights has been approved for Mr E. J. Kirkwood’s ’ yearling chestnut filly by Nightrald- ■ Spoon, purchased, at the Trentham sales at the beginning of the year. I The horse, which is at present under the care of Mr J. F. Buller, is entered for the Taranaki Stakes and other classic races. : MEDICAL CORPS IN THE AIR. J “One,ot the good things that result- - ed from the Great War was the imI provement in the army medical ser- I ‘ vice and its functioning, and if there J i should ever be another war there i j would be still greater improvement,” J said Dr T. Fergus, at the Limbless i Ex-servicemen’s annual dinner at ■ Dunedin. “The most revolutionary i i change will probably be in transport, j 'l It was suggested recently that the , transport of wounded would be by I aeroplanes carrying soldiers to hos- I ! rital bases perhaps 100 miles away. | As this distance could be covered in I an hour, the saving not only of the j pain caused through rough passage; )by ambulance, but also in time, is j I very apparent.” i I