THE RED CROSS
NATIVES' CONTRIBUTION "TO HELP PUR BOYS" When members of an Australian lied Cross, party visited a lonely island off the New Guinea coast, they were met hy the native mission teacher, who told them that the members of the island's Red Cross bmnch, plantation labourers who earned 10s per month, had contributed a saucerful of shillings and florins. But they are not satisfied with' this. They insisted on adding to the donation coconuts:, pumpkins, bananas, sweet potatoes and sugar cane. The visitors were entertained at a big sing-sing, and the- "branch secretary" made a speech:— "We ask you to accept these gifts from the people of . They arc to he used to help our hoys, both white and coloured, who are on the fighting fronts, and to help also those we call the enemy. For the lied Cross is love, and it helps everyone."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 6
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147THE RED CROSS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 6
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