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ST. JOHN BRIGADE

JUBILEE OF FOUNDATION. IN DUNEDIN. CELEBRATED IN LONDON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 22. The 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Dunedin ambulance divison was celebrated at Overseas House yesterday. The Chief Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Overseas Brigade, Colonel J. L. Sleeman, who was Director of Military Training in New Zealand in the last war, organised the gathering He said New Zealand was providing a larger percentage or ambulance members per thousand of population than any part of the overseas Empire.

Messages of congratulation to Dunedin were read from Lord Bledisloe, the New Zealand High Commissioner. Mr Jordan, and also from the Australian, South African and Indian High Commissioners. Canada and Newfoundland also sent tributes. Lord Clarendon, chancellor of the Order, said New Zealand had pioneered the overseas brigade. Dunedin being formed in 1892 and South Africa in 1893. Lady Mountbatten, who is the ady superintendent of the Order, voiced greetings to New Zealand from 150, 000 ambulance drivers in Britain. She recalled her visit to New Zealand in 1920 and said her memories included toheroa soup and blue cod.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1942, Page 2

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ST. JOHN BRIGADE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1942, Page 2

ST. JOHN BRIGADE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1942, Page 2

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