RED CROSS SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16144, 23 February 1918, Page 2

RED CROSS SOCIETY.

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE. A lnffeticg of the executive of thQ JUvI Cross was held yesterday afternoon. .Present —ilcssr3 A. E. It. Rhodes ichairman), H. J. Beswick. H. Holland, W. T. Robinson, P. Hallcnstsin, E. Nordon, M. 3. Grossou. J. A. Fleshcr, the Hon. J. Borthwick, the Rev. L. Hard, and Mesdames C. Williama and 11. H. Smith.

The secretary that tho Woolstou Red Cross Carnival. I'-oM recently., showed iv crcdit balance o; £131 l'-s fd- Ihc promoters had handed in £50, which_ thev desired should be remitted to the Now Zealand Committee in London. It was roorted that the New Zealand Refrigerating 'Co. and the Canterbury Frosen Meat Co. werc prepared to receiv o ha-res and rabbits for freezing for wounded men in English hospitals, as thev b;td done in ihf previous seasons. The printed renort of the High Commissioner on the work of the Now Zealand Prisoner.? of War Department was discussed, and was referred to a coinnii'. tee consist in;,* of the chairman, the Rev. Lr Hard, an- Mr Nordon to report on. _ A letter was received from Mr T\*. IT. E. Wanklyn stating that ?n anonymous donor had presented one thoroughbred horse, eleven maTos, and three foal 3 to the Ked Cross Societv and Navy League jointly, alio th?<c would be disposed of by an art union, for which, arrangements were now in proress - • • The executive passed " motion asking M." Wanklyn to thank the donor. The "ecrctitry reported that ''V _ had forwarded 80 copies of view's of Christeluirch. presented bv Mr V*. D. Meares lor distvibutior amoii" the military hospitals_in Ej l ?* land, where .sick i'nd wounded New a * landers are lying. Mr Meares wa s accorded a vote of thank 3 for his jrift. Th? chairman announced that the other three Centres hud agreed to assist the New Zealand Prisoncrs-of-War Bureau, conducted by the Rev. L. Hard.