RELIEF OF DISTRESS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2234, 21 August 1914, Page 6

RELIEF OF DISTRESS

SOCIETIES TO CO-OPERATE

HOSPITAL BOARD'S PROPOSAL

Tho Wellington Hospital Board resolved yesterday:—"That this board, in conjunction with the Society for tho Protection of Women and Children, the W.C.T.U., and tho Women Teachers' Association, as well as other kindred organisations, should arrange to establish a National Guild of Service to help the families of those engaged in military duties, and that all other Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards in tho Domiu-. ion 6hould bo approached to make the movement a national one. If all the boards take up this matter. and have all societies working in conjunction with their officers it will prevent any overlapping." Section 64 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, is said to provide the machinery to enable boards to act iii,this direction.' The chairman of the BoaTd (the Rev. W. ✓A. Evans) said at the moeting that the idea was to have an organisation in Wellington working in conjunction with the board with regard to rolief. The tendency in the past (in strike time) was to have several distributing centres; with the result that some people who needed relief were neglected and others got more than thek share. All work of this kind should be. centralised, and, therefore, it was well that a co-operation of the societies concerned should be effected. This work would be independent of the board's charitable aid work. The following have been asked to cooperate with tlie board: —Mesdames A. R. Atkineon, Grace Neill, Donaldson, k. L. Herdman, J. P. Luke, A. Williams, Evans, Misses Phoebe Myers, England, Dowdesdale, and Dr. Agnes Bennett.