RED CROSS WORK

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 7, 19 March 1947, Page 5

RED CROSS WORK

SCREENING OF CORSO FILM FRIDAY EVENING’S SHOWING Miss H. Iris Crooke, DirectorGeneral of N.Z. Red Cross V.A.D. will be visiting Whakatane from the 20th to the 22nd of March (this week). She is bringing with her some Corso films, also one from the Famine Emergency Committee’s collection, which will be screened in the Red Cross Rooms on Friday night the 22nd of March at 7.30 p.m. The Red Cross Society will be very pleased to welcome members of various organisations connected with Corso as well as all members of the public who are interested. Junior Red Cross members are also asked to attend. The N.Z. Red Cross Society is continually being requested fgr assistance, particularly with clothing, by many overseas countries, and these films will give the public an idea of some of the conditions that the Red Cross is helping to alleviate.

JUNIOR RED CROSS

PORTSEA SCHOOL ADOPTED The Whakatane School is the first school in New Zealand to adopt a school in England—the Portsea School near Portsmouth, England. Led by their Junior Red Cross Circle the school has already sent three cases of food and most beautifully made clothing, which is not only warm and serviceable, but colourful and decorative as well. Now the whole school is on the job, there is friendly rivalry between classrooms as which shall top the list for the biggest cash collection, and Miss Lawes, Junior Red Cross Organiser, reports that there are more cases ready to go. The pupils have also written to children of the English school, and are now looking forward to receiving replies. It is hoped that other schools will follow Whakatane’s example. The scheme was launched by the Red Cross Society and the Famine Emergency Committee, and full details cap be obtained from your Postmaster.