Ambulance response times

The value of motor ambulance transport was well instanced yesterday in the case of the elderly couple in South Dunedin who were found in an unconscious condition as the result of asphyxiation by gas.

As soon as the doctor arrived he dispatched a man to telephone for the ambulance, and it was on its way to the hospital with the patients in less than 20 minutes. Under the old horse ambulance system as much as 2 hours has been known to elapse before the removal of the patients. to start life in the new lands. The intention is to send out 1000 boys and girls from 5 to 12 years to the farm school near Cambridge in the Auckland district.

While orphans of men who have fallen in the war will have preference, others are not debarred from the benefits of the scheme.

— ODT, 11.10.1920.

Arthur Porritt wins the 100yard dash at Dunedin Amateur Athletic Association’s sports on the Caledonian Ground on October 9, 1920. — Otago Witness, 19.10.1920.