RED CROSS SOCIETY
Lincoln Sub-Centre Annual Meeting Items required for layettes to be sent to Hong Kong were listed by Mrs R. I. Brake, president of the North Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, in her talk to members of the Lincoln subcentre at their annual meeting recently. Mrs Brake included this in an informal talk on aspects of Red Cross work. During the year the subcentre made donations to many deserving causes. Among them were disaster relief funds, dried milk for Malaya. the Rannerdale Home and Burwood Hospital. and the fund benefiting fully disabled servicemen. Food was sent in for the meals-on-wheels scheme and books for the library. Children’s clothes were made for the Red Cross emergency cupboard. No special money-raising effort was made during the year, but the sub-centre added £22 to its funds with -JR a bring-and-buy and sales Kg tables The following officers were elected:—President. Mrs W. V Jordan; vice-presidents. Mrs ■ E. Carter and Mrs T. F. Wil- ■ l;amson; secretary-treasurer, Mrs A. A. Barwick; sewing | supervisor. Mrs W. D. Templeton; liaison officer to the Junior Red Cross. Mrs J. H. Habgood. At the conclusion of the meeting Mrs Brake was presented with flowers by Mrs H. B. Moir. The retiring president (Mrs H. L. Jennings) was also presented with flowers and a gift token, in appreciation of her services to the sub-centre.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 2
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229RED CROSS SOCIETY Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 2
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