NEW N.Z. RED CROSS DIRECTOR TAUGHT BY MRS SULLIVAN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 71, 19 July 1950, Page 5

NEW N.Z. RED CROSS DIRECTOR TAUGHT BY MRS SULLIVAN

(Special to Beacon) Wellington, this day.

The new Director General of Red Cross Volunteer and Detachment, Mrs M. Hodgkinson, was welcomed by Mr A. E. Gibbons, Dominion Chairman of New Zealand Red Cross, at the meeting of the Red Cross Executive Committee held at Wellington this week, and which was attended. by Mrs A. W. Winstone, Whakatane, member of the Dominion Executive. Early Sunday School

i Mrs Hodgkinson, who is a New Zealander, trained at the New Plymouth Hospital, and has spent the last 20 years in Kenya, working for the British Red Cross. She told Mrs Winstone that she had attended a Sunday School class when a child in New Plymouth which had been conducted by Mrs W Sullivan, wife of the Minister of Lauou - :, before her marriage. Aid for China and food for Britain were matters discussed. Regarding the former the League of Red Cross Societies states it considers it imprudent to despatch any supplies to China as it is not satisfied that goods will reach those for whom they are intended. Funds on hand should loe held till further advice is received. Replies are still awaited from Dr Woo, President of Chinese Red Cross, who has been asked for advice. His last letter stated that the blockade would prevent supplies reaching the Chinese Red Cross.

Food For Britain The British Red Cross has been asked to advise if food and clothing are still needed. The reply stated that the British Red Cross runs convalescent depots all over the British Isles, and has real need of food and clothing.

Mr Gibsons stated that £16,000 had been spend by the Waikato Centre on Food for Britain. Recently at the request of this Centre ten cases of food were sent to a Tuberculosis Clinic in Bennenden, Kent, and food parcels were distributed by Her Majesty the Queen.