This section will look at the origins and milestones of the Order in NZ right through to the organisation and services of the Order in NZ today. Did you know that a St John Ambulance Association was founded in NZ in 1885, three years before St John became an Order? Did you know that an Association was founded in Wellington because the organisers were afraid of a Russian invasion of New Zealand?

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The St John NZ Regions today; the original St Mary's church in Merivale, Christchurch, c.1890.