Ambulance and Red Cross.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3124, 30 June 1917, Page 4

Ambulance and Red Cross.

The honorary secretary of the St. John Aiiibulance Brigado Overseas and Red Ci-osa Society (Miss Isabel Peat) has received the following letter from Lady Jekyll (cHairwoman of the St. Jo ha Ambulance Warehouse, London), acknowledging the safe arrival of oases and bales of hospital equipment. Lady Jekyll writes:—"We have much pleasure in writing to acknowledge the safe receipt here of fifteen cases and thirty bales, advised by you to us on December G last. All the things have reached us safely, and I cannot tell you how very grateful we are for tho well chosen, well made, and admirable gifts which your organisation so generously sends for the use of the wounded. I should like to express special thanks for the sheets, blankets, pillow-cases, dressing-gowns, and foodstuffs. All these are expensive to buy, and are extremely useful to us. It may interest your workers to know that last week we sent out just under 50,000 things for hospitals and convalescent homes. Tho list of our hospitals supplied from here is being constantly added to, and we send also to military and civil hospitals, and to the front." Thesummary supplied by Lady Jekyll Rives information of interest to Red Cross workers here. For the month ending March 31, 1917, 2-173 hospitals in this country were supplied with 5920 cases, of stores, and 12,795 cases were dispatched abroad as follow:—Boulogne, 827G cases; Rouen, 4GG cases; Calais, 183 cases; Havre, 53 cases; Borne, SSB cases; Malta, 300 cases; Alexandria, 818 cases; Cairo, 2 cases; Salonika., 120 cases; Basra, 2020 cases; Mombasa, 1 case; Bombay, 09 cases; Dehre Dun, 10 cases; Jassy, 101 eases; Petrograd, 7 cases; Yosgail, G cases; sundry foreign, 35 cases: total 12,795 cases. Garment Receipts-Gifts 112,553: purchases, 198,177—505,730; issues: home hospitals. 78,143; hospitals abroad, 278,251 —.150,394.

Miss Gladys Strntton, of Levin, with her aunt. Miss Ridler, is spending some time in Wellington to recover from lier recent illness.

Tho Brooklyn Branch' of the Women's National Reserve, which was in charge of the Wellington Red Cross Shop yesterday, realised the excellent result of

A handsome silver jug has been donated by Captain Robertson, R.A.M.C., ol Brooklyn, for' the Red Cross on November 30 The jug, for whicli tickets are already being sold, is on view in tho window of Stewart Dawson, and has been greatly admired.

ihe Society for the Protection |bf Women and Children invites all interested in the education of girls to attend a meeting in the Concert Chamber, lown Hall, on Wednesday next, to diecuss tho proposals of the Council of Education on tho segregation of the sexes and the vocational training- of girls. The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, will be in the chair. Tho speakers will be Professor Hunter, Mrs. H. Smith (representing private schools), Mr. Foster (representing public schools), Mrs. Coad (Teachers' Association and secondary schools), Mrs. A. R. Atkinson and other educationists The subject is most important as. the higher education of girls and the training of an intelligent motherhood is the greatest safeguard for the future of our country. Mothers of girls are specially invited to attend this meeting. Teachers and educationists who approve of the recommendations of the Council of Education are invited to attend and express their viows.