Cliff, the southern hospital campaign ambulance, has been travelling through the Lakes District and Central Otago this week to give people a chance to gather campaign information, buy a badge or sign the Buller Declaration.
The Save Our Southern Hospital campaign ambulance — dubbed Cliff — has been to Wellington and is travelling around the south, driven by Dunedin couple Mike Waddell and Pam Munro, as part of the campaign for the new Dunedin hospital.
Cliff was in Wānaka about 2pm yesterday, Mrs Munro said.
They then travelled to Cromwell, where they passed out postcards and talked to passersby about the campaign.
Today they will be in Alexandra, near Central Stories Museum, about 11.30am and afterwards in Roxburgh and Lawrence as they make their way back to Dunedin.
It was important people all over the south had their say about the hospital, she said.
"It’s not a Dunedin hospital; it’s a southern regional hospital for 350,000 people."
Arguments about funding for the hospital were misleading, she said.
For example, the cost of the proposed Mt Victoria tunnel, in Wellington, which was predicted to cut 10 minutes from an airport to city journey, could fund the hospital, Mrs Munro said.
