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Free Ambulance


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I rather liked this somewhat brutal, Orwellian building near Wellington’s water front.

Interesting story behind it, too.

In the 1860s, when the city was just beginning to grow, medical services were at a very basic level, and there was only one ambulance for the whole city, manned by a Scottish migrant named Hector MacTavish. He owned a horse and cart and had some basic medical training and therefore began volunteering his services as the city’s first ambulance. Over the twenty years he and his trusty horse Mallaig worked, several lives were saved and Hector was widely known around town, and called "Ambulance MacTavish", or just "Ambulance" to most Wellingtonians.

One day, after a particularly hectic day of saving lives, Ambulance MacTavish was enjoying a couple of drinks in a local hostelry when word came through of a senior politician who had fallen ill at home. MacTavish left immediately, and arrived at the man’s home but when the politician smelt beer on MacTavish’s breath he called the police and had him arrested for being drunk in charge of a horse and cart.

The denizens of Wellington were up in arms, incensed that Ambulance MacTavish should be arrested for at best doing his job and at worst simply making an honest error of judgement.

Protests took to the street calling for his release, and many builders played their part by carving the demand "Free Ambulance" into their masonry and woodwork on new buildings. This is the largest surviving building to bear the protest.

The protests paid off – MacTavish was released after two weeks, and the untreated politican died a slow and agonising death.

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