RED CROSS SOCIETY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 26, 21 November 1944, Page 5

RED CROSS SOCIETY

THE WHAKATANE BRANCH OBJECTIVES FOR NEW BUILDING We have been asked to state that the main use of the section in Commerce Street is to provide a Voluntary Aid Training Room and '-:- manent headquarters for the Eastern Bay of Plenty centre of the Society which is an integral part ef the International Red Cross. A world wide effort is being made to establish permanent headquarters to provide ways and means to maintain the International Red Cross, as. the. greatest humanitarian organisation in the world—ready to relieve distress in any time of emergency in peace or war. Equally important is the work done, by the Voluntary Aids. Their work overseas with the Army Nursing Service has received the highest praise from the Commander-in-Chief;. On the home. front } their h-\p in civilian hospitals and in permanent service with the Civil Nursing Reserve both the Health Department and the hospital staffs have admitted their great indebtedness. The hope has been expressed by the, Health Department that all organisations responsible for Youth Movements and Vocational Guidance will help to keep alive the V.A.D. movement, and that it will become an integral part of every girl's education. With this object in view it has now been decided to grant Miss Small, Director-General of the Junior Red Cross, twelve months leave of absence from the Health Department for the purpose of organising, directing and encouraging the Junior Red Cross throughout the schools -of. the Dominion.,