A suggestion that the blood grouping system used in the German Army could well be adopted in the New Zealand forces was made to the first annual meeting of the North Canterbury branch of the National Blood Transfusion Service by Mr C. Meachen, honorary secretary of the national council of the service. He said that, as in the past, one side of the identity disc of German soldiers contained their regimental number, but the other now contained their blood group instead of the name of their religious denomination. He spoke appreciatively of the members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram, who were donors to the service, and added that about 35 members of the permanent staff at Fort Dorset also belonged to it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1939, Page 7
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