THE RED CROSS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 47, 19 November 1917, Page 7

THE RED CROSS

COLONEL B. 11. BHODES'S MISSION. Colonel E. H. Ehodes, M.P., who has arranged tio proceed to Britain as New Zealand Ecd Cross Commissioner, has arrived from the south. Colonel Ehodes plans ,to inquire regarding the organisation and administration ot the New Zealand lied Cross branch i'n the Mother Country) on behalf of the pooplo who have interested thomselves in tho work at this cud. He will visit hospitals in England and France, and make inquiries as to tho advisability of appointing a New Zealand Bed Cross Commissioner for Franco and also "for Egypt and as to what organisation will bo -required 111 thoso countries if commissioncrs are appointed. He is also to mako inquiries as lo the methods now adopted 111 England for the training ami instruc«.mi and maimed soldiers, •the -Ited Cross ladies' committees in oiuercnt parts of the Dominion want mo to .investigate and report to them upon quite a number of matters at Home" said Colonel Khodcs. "For instance they desire mformaion as to whether ilie orgamsation here is sending the right articles for the sick and wounded. Ihoy wish to have an acknowledgment of tho goods sent to England, and lo bo informed how the articles are distribnted-whe-tlior by tho War Contingent Association m. i ni i . L Committee, 01 by Chaplain Greene, acting under instructions of one of lliosc committees, homo branches desiro to know who is organising tho visiting of our sick and wounded, not only in our own hospitals p'iL p -i ln - othc ,'; hospitals throughout Great Britain. Other branches wish to know if th e goods sent are being allowed to accumulate, and if the money sent is hoarded up and not expended. It iu rumoured that the funds are not beiiiL' tint- • ''avo been mad® ! ; „ m" s ' ck , lll,(l wounded should recto W aml meat ' cheese, "butter,

Colonel Rhodes said lie was p. | n rloHi>" i ! ''■Perfectly ..pen will, regard lo all these mailers, ,vid would torm lua own judgment after nialtiitsi full inquiry "In Mnglnnd." ho m.fclV :h. t o n'i iV™ Hocicl J'> wllicll naturally tin>u. but which is always ready at ,!,n outbreak of war to co-oporalo iiill, | n( i ![ 'f, Arm - V '"flioal uiitlioribvH, nm | iit llm assu , nu ' ( ' ffi'oat pronii'iODco Miring (ho present war. Aiw|.rnlia al et c n organised a Eci] Cross Hociotv, an.l "cut a number of voluntary helpers to Tuvpt at tho outbreak of tho war. Or. Norman Biookes, the well-known l.i-iiuiH pluvci- ™ *PP<>"rt«l Bed Cross Cfliniiii'isuiior.' Ho was subsetiuenlfy joinnd by Jlr Adrian luiox, K.C.. and oilier v01,,,,1a,.; helpers. AJoro recently, Now Zealand formed it lied Cross Association, xvilh s n central exccu ivcun Wellinuton, of which the linrl ot Liverpool (Oovornor-(toji-eral) is president Hrancl,.", have boon formed throughout tho Dominion Tho largest brandies, of course, nr.,'in Iho four chief centres, and thorn nro commit, toes in almost every settlement throui'hout tho Dominion."