"OUR DAY," 1918.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16263, 13 July 1918, Page 8

"OUR DAY," 1918.

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The first meeting of tho executive appointed in connexion with the Bed Cross Society's Our Day appeal for 1918 was' held yesterday. Mr J. A. Flesher, chairman of the Red Cross Society, presided over a large attendance. ~ Mr Flesher explained that the meeting was a preliminary one. The Our Day eifort this year was to be the biggest yet made. The "copper trail' challenge had been accepted by OtajWj and £40,000 was the mark set to do raised by each centre. . Coming fo the noed for raising Buch a large amount, the speaker sajd that , Canterbury's quota to. the Our Day Fund was £22,000. The centre had also to find £1500 a month to meet the needs of the New Zealand Rod Cross Committee in London, while the Convalescent Home, which it was proposed to establish in Christchurch, would require £250 every month for its maintenance. It would, therefore, be seen that the sum aimed at would not be more than sufficient to cover Red Cross requirements until the end of the year. Last year the amount raised throughout the Empire for the Red Cross was £2,250,000, of which nearly a million and a half came from the oversea Dominions., The expenditure of the British Red Cross had risen from a million and a half in 1017 to noarly four million in 1918. While the expenditure had increased 138 per cent., the income had increased'only 30 per cent This year's Our Day appeal would commonce on August Ist, , and would bo wound up with a street collection on October 18th. Mr H. J. Beswick brought forward tho matter of interesting the country districts in the effort. On the suggestion of Mr C. J. Trbleaven, it was doomed to draw up a letter, to be 6ent to patriotic societies in the country centres. Mr Flesher and Mr Donaldson wore deputed to draw up the Jotter, and to present a draft to the next mectincr of the executive, which was fixed for Tuesday next.