RED CROSS SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16225, 4 July 1918, Page 2

RED CROSS SOCIETY.

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE. The Red Cross Centra executive met yesterday, Mr J. A. Fleeter presiding over » large attendance. The financial statement showed the available credit balance tor general purposes to be £2010 9s Gd. Tho cash. in hand at the Umon Bank was £6322 19s 4d, while tho lia-' bilitiee of the Society were £2379 19s 3d. lea-r----ing a balance of £4543 0s Id. The reserves amounted to £4082 Is Bd. The financial statement wso received. Mr Berwick reported that the Prisoners of War Fund now stood at £fi6ls 17s lOd, wiih quotas still to come in from Timaru, Ashburton, West Coast, and Malvern. With these there should be more than tho £10, COO it was originally intended to raise. With regard to tho proposed ChristehuichDunedin Copper Trail in aid of the Our Day Fund, Sir Bcswic?* said that Ota-go had expressed its inability to raisa as much as Canterbury and in turn had proposed that the sum per yard should be Is 2d instead of 2s 6d, n« proposed by Christchurch. The Christchurch Centre, therefore, had drawn up a new proposal, in which it indicated its willingness to handicap itself by raising 2s per yard, while Dunedin would bs asked to raise only Is 2d per yard. This would mean j I that Canterbury would havo to raise £40,000 | I aa against £25,000 from Otn~o. I The Xew Zealand branch of the Red Crcse Society asking the committee to circulate all its sub-centres with a view to ascertaining what money they had available, and what was being dono with the money collected. Tho letter stated that the four centres were War Funds, and made returns every quarter to the Internal Affairs Department, but that most of the committees at sub-centrea did not make any returns, and 1 consequently no information was available as to how the funds stood, and whethor they were devoted solely to Red Cross purposes. Reporting on the matter of tho proposed Convalescent Homo for Soldiers, the chairman said that Colonel Vulintino had admitted tho necessity for such an institution. About £3000 per year would bo required +o carry on the institution. It was decided that a sub-corn mif tee, comprising the chairman. Mr Borthwick, Mr Tripp, and Mr Bov.'ker, should co-oporate with the Women's Branch in making tho necessary preliminary enquiries. The meeting then wept into committee.