LAST DAYS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3036, 24 March 1917, Page 10

LAST DAYS

The last days of. the sale 'of! ticket! for the Red Cross 'Art Union are aw nounced.' Selling will stop on, April 11, : and the drawing will take place on April 19. This is an art union in which every friend of our suffering: soldiers will doubtless take a ticket. Thetro.are 31 prizes and each one. shilling ticket will have 31 chances of winning; a. prize, ranging from the first prize of .500 slieep, valued at ,£SOO, down to five sheep, valued at vCS. Apart from the/chance of winning a valuable prize, the opportunity of helping the Eed Cross ought not to be overlooked. Granville Barker, the dramatist, 1 writing of the wonderful work of the Red Cross in France, imports:— One of the most useful services of, tho Red Cross is their careful search for inJ formation about the wounded- aad miss* ing. Day by day SO or 40 searchers go through their lists and their hospitals. For weeks and months an .inquiry-: about some poor fellow who has ofhciiilly disappeared, and whose mother is anxiously waiting for the least scrap of .news of him, may bear hardly any fruit, but every report worth making is sent round to each office, docketed, collated, and little by little the contradictions aro sifted down and good evidence built up.