OPAWA RED CROSS

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31006, 11 March 1966, Page 2

OPAWA RED CROSS

A talk about teen-age girls in the Solomon Islands was given by Miss Coral Dodds at the recent annual meeting of the Opawa sub-centre of the Red Cross Society. Miss Dodds, who spent last year in the Solomon Islands with Volunteer Service Abroad, illustrated her talk with coloured slides.

Mrs W. G. Taylor, president of the sub-centre, reported that members had collected for appeals for the Aged People’s Welfare Council and the Red Cross Society. Donations, amounting to £34, were sent to a Malayan comforts fund, the Red Cross emergency cupboard, a fund to send dried milk overseas, the Freedom from Hunger Campaign and the Inchon Hospital project.

Mrs R. 1. Brake, president of the North Canterbury centre of the society, thanked members for their support. She congratulated those responsible for holding the interest of Junior Red Cross members in the district and training them in the service of others.

Officers elected are:—President, Mrs W. G. Taylor: vicepresidents. Mrs G. Watson. Mrs H. Smith, Miss A. Pycroft: secretary, Mrs A, R. Cant; assistant-secretary, Mrs B. P. McNeilage: treasurer, Mrs K. A. White; assistant-treas-urer, Mrs F. Polhill; committee, Mesdames A. Bender, J. Dalgliesh, W. H. Eastwick, A. Edward, R. A. Ferguson, K. Whitlow, D. Whiteley, A. Lee, R. Carey, Misses E. Bowron, J. King; liaison officer for St. Mark’s Junior Red Cross, Miss H. Fraser; leader of Opawa School Junior Red Cross, Mrs W. G. Taylor.