RED CROSS WORK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2761, 3 May 1916, Page 2

RED CROSS WORK

DISTRIBUTION OF ACTIVITIES. The meeting of the Women's Red Cross Committee of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John (Wellington Branch), adjourned from last week, was held! at the Red. Cross Depot yesterday morning. . The Mayoress, Mrs. J. P. Luke, presided. ' Ths syllabus of the distribution of work to ths ladies who hare been chosen as heads of each particular department was placed before the meeting- and was approved. Tho allotment is as follows:— No. 1 department, Mrs. .Corkill. Mrs. Corkill will—(a) receive the goods, unpack cases, and sort and make lists of their contents. These lists will be passed to the secretary, and the goods to the various departments, (b) Dispatching goods. From the list received from the secretary, giving details of the garments required, Mrs. Corkill will obtain the latter from the various departments and have them sent to the top floor for packing and stencilling by men who have undertaken to dp that part of the work, with docket signed by the packer. No.. i department, the Countess of Glasgow." In this department is included —(a) charge of the bedding outfit, which consists of quilts, blankets, sheets, draw.. sheets, pillows and slips, face washers, towels, hot water bottles, and fomentation flannels; (b) patients, outfit, which included pyjamas, nightshirts, bed'jackets, bed socus, handkerchiefs, operation stockings; (c) convalescent clothes, undervests, pants, day shirts, loungo suits, socks, slippers, dressing gowns', and handkerchiefs. No. 3 department, Mrs. Barltrop. This will comprise everything to do with bandages, including roller bandages, cutting out various kinds asked for, ;6ucn as the T-shaped bandages, etc., flat gauze swabs, round swabs (gauze and wool), padding splints, limb pillows, making or distributing tho same;-also the provision of old liuen. - Department- No. 4, Mrs. W. Nathan. Store supplies. In this is included the purchase of material, haberdashery, etc. (a) On rcceiving'the supplies, the quantity, price, and where the goods were purchased are to be entered in stores book, also tho price marked on block of material or cover before placing on shelves or cupboard, (b) When dispatching, the quantity of material, price, and to whom sent must be entered into invoice book and' passed to secretary. Department No. 5, Mrs. Blundell. (a) This provides for cutting, also the arranging of material that.-is cut out in tho d'epot or factory, into complete gar-1 ments. (b) Supervision of depot workDepartment 6, Mrs. Joseph. This provides for the distribution of work for— (a) country workers, (b) sewing guilds, (c) home workers. Parcels personally taken aro to bo signed for and returned to the upstairs department. Country parcels are to be.sent to the office to bo, dispatched and signed for and returned through. the same. Department No. 7, Mrs. Myers. Soldiers' comforts: This piovidcs for the collecting and distributing of comforts to the hospitals and convalescent homes. The committee will be glad if those who are willing to work in any of the =.bove departments (they need' not necessarily, be subscribers or members) ■'■ will advise the secretary, Miss- Sybil' Nathan, nl. their willingness to do so. before. Saturday next. AH'.workers anxious to. earn the Red' Cross badge must enrol as a member, of tho Women's Red Cross Committee. The subscription is half a ; ;:rown per annum. Mrs. Joseph' was elested a member ot the committee at yesterday's meeting.. . i The annual meeting' will be held in tlio Mayor'.s room of the Town Hall on '.! May 11, at 8 o'clock.. All subscribers ': and members are invited to attend. Tho, I annua! report and other business niat- ■ Iters will be dealt with.

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

London, March 23. Miss Elsie Simpson, of Wellington, arrived in England last week. Mr. James Ronaldson, of Timaru, is staying at Newington, Edinburgh. • Air; Charles Rattray, of Otago, is on his way ; to EDgland, \ in. Vancouver. Dr. James Macpherson, o2 Duncdin, is expected in England in a few days. Mr. Frank Close, of Taranaki, who arrived by the Corinthic,, is visiting his Yorkshire hump, which he has not seen for seven years. The-' Rev.-E. H. Gallop, vicar of Tnumaruniii (N.Z.), is returning to Loiv don, where he has an appointment as vicar of St. John's, Waltham Green. Miss Annie llamon, late matron of the I'ioton Hospital, who went from New Zealand to Alexandria recently as ono of the staff on a hospital ship, is expected in London this week. The Lyceum Club is giving a-'-cceu-tion t'his'aftcrnoon (Thursday) from four to six for tho friends of tho Overseas forces. Mrs. Leo Myers is one of the hostesses' on the committee. Mrs. L. E.' Bamctt,' wife of tho wellknown Dunedin surgeon, who has been working in one of tho hospitals en tho Western front, is staying with Miss Marjorie Barnett and Mr.'Geoffrey Er.th in Bath.

Great sympathy will be felt With Mrs. Arnold Burrows, formerly Miss Margaret Hastings Bridge, of Christohurch (N.Z.), in the loss of her husbaud. Captain Burrows was killed in action with the 6th Northampton Regiment on March 12. : • ..During liis visit to Falmouth, SirThomas "Mackenzie caught . a severe chill, and was prevented from accepting many invitations. Ho was to have booh one of the guests of the evening, at the dinner of the Irish Club on St. Patrick's Day. Lance-Corpl. James Rorialdson, of Timaru, who was studying engineering in England when'the war broke out, joined the 6th. Battalion King's Liver-pool-Regiment, Mid was recently invalided from the front with rheumatic fever. He is uow cricting machinery for, torpedo destroyers in Scotland, and spent last week-end in London.

Archdea-ccn and Mrs. Reeve, of Wangariui, will be the guests, of-Mrs. G. H. Morton during thoir visit to Christchurch. 'Miss'Parkinson, of Coromaudcl Street, is .spending a-short holiday with her friends 'Mr. "and Mrs. M.' H. Dixon, of Gladstone, Wairarapa. . ■ The lady under discussion. you may be assured had a good complexion and beautiful hair. Why, because she, kad had treatment from Miss Milsom,.who-teaches individual'home treatment so that'all may. attend, themselves in their own' homes: There is no difficulty in learning, so simply is the treatment "illustrated and explained. Treatments from £1 Is.; consultation free. ■ Sole distributor of the latest and tho mode of to-day, viz., Parisian Bloom (Fraioheur, Paris, reg.), 3s. 6d. a box; and Parisian Lip Food ("Levrelcne," reg.), 25.. Gd. a jar. All hairwork, perfect match.and texture guaranteed. Miss Milsom, 94 Willis-Street (1 doors past "Evening Post"). Telephone 814.—Advt.

. The "Sports" is the. most dressy' suit for boys. Big range just opened up, made from best colonial tweeds. Prices, 265. Gd. to 325. Gd., with, shorts, 1 and from l!0s. to 40s. with breeches knickers. - Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners." Street.—Advt.