RED CROSS WORK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 266, 30 July 1918, Page 7

RED CROSS WORK

MUST BE CAKIUED ON. "Thero must ba uo dropping of Red Cross work," said Chaplain T. Inelden Taylor in SI. Mark's .Schoolroom lust night, when ppuiking on VjcWalf of tlio lied Cross organisation. "No suggestion ol relaxing eli'wt would bo mado it everybody uudcr.stood fully what the Leu Cross work means.to the men at the front. Never lot tlio time come when a wounded New Zealand boy will liaye lo be told that there are no warm pyjamas and bed socks for hiin bcMUfio the New "■calami women Jiave failed to send tlio monthly shipment. "Hemcmber that tlio wounded boy brings nothing with him from the trenches but his soiled and bloiKl-staincd uniform. We want a continuous supply of Bed Cross boxes in order that when tho boy reaches hospitalthero may _bo warm, "clcan garments waiting for him. *VJicsii I got to hospital from tho trenches in France tho nurse brought me a wonderful present—the most wonderful pro-sr-nt 1 had ever received. IV was a suit of cleat) pyjamas, and pinne:l to the coat there was'a loving message to a ' u '°!' l " cl ; cd soldier' from a little New Zealand '*irl I wrote to hoi' tuid got a "wouderiul fetter in reply. NeveHet.the time come wlicit' there are no gifts like that \wiuinjr (ho wounded fellows who come out of the trenches. . , "J. am not asking you to give great sums lo the Ketl Cross, tjive what ,y>u cm afford: give, remembering that you avo doing it for some wounded soldier who has endured greatly and sullored much. But whatever you do give reguladv. I?emernb , . , r thai the comforts you send one month must be lenewcil the next month. Go oj! giving until the need for giving has passed. Keep on knitting socks and making . balaclavas ami pyjamas. and all the re-'t of the things. 'L'hev bring moro comfort and happiness to the bovs than you can ever imagine, and the need for them will continue until the end of the war."