JUNIOR RED CROSS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23976, 17 June 1943, Page 2

JUNIOR RED CROSS

PRIME MINISTER OPENS CONFERENCE (P.A.) WELLINGTON. June 16. The first biaaual conference of the New Zealand Junior Red Cross Committee was held to-day, and was attended by delegates from all parts of the Dominion., The conference was opened by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser). Welcoming Mr Fraser, Miss L. G. Small, who was in the chair, said the New Zealand organisation was approaching its twenty-first birthday, which would fall on September 18. Visitors and delegates were welcomed by Mr C. G. White, Dominion chairman of the New Zealand Red Cross. He said that Mr Fraser was seeing the fruits of the work he had done in the encouragement of the organisation while Minister of Health, Minister of Education, and now as Prime Minister. “In this work you are laying the foundation of the future,” said Mr Fraser. "After the struggle for freedom has been completed, we have to lay the foundations of prosperity, and this is what this organisation is doing. The movement is an enormous help to children.” The war had put a stop to a lot of activities directed toward health, notably housing, said Mr Fraser. Through such organisations as the Junior Red Cross children were being given an opportunity to know what should be done toward public health in the future. In the past only a few had knowledge of the true need for health, exercise, and sleep. “ T f this spirit continues to imbur .f children of this Dominion,” ,ltfr Fraser declared* "then it will be a greater nation \ than ally of us have realised.” ' The' following were elected to the r .XfctU'tive of the Junior Red Cross: Miss Glover (Otago), Miss Morrison (North Canterbury), Miss Spencer (Hawke’s Bay), Miss Taylor (Auckland), Mrs Pegg (Waikato), and Miss Tolhurst (Wairarapa).