CARE OF EX-SOLDIERS
4 OBJECT OF BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MISSION The Secretary-General of the British Red Cross Society (Brigadier-General H. F. Bateman-Champain) arrived by the Maunganui yesterday and was welcomed by the heads of the various branches of the organisation here. There was a large attendance at the civic reception accorded him in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall at noon. The Deputy-Mayor (Councillor DI. F. Luckie), in extending a welcome to Bri-gadier-General Champain, who was accompanied by his wife and two daughters, said that the Red Cross societies had rendered the greatest service to humanity during the Great War, and since the war had done valuable work in alleviating sickness and suffering. The Red Cross Society had been formed in 1859, and since 1919 it had become a Red Cross League of Nations, to which fifty-four nations belonged. Sir Francis Bell, in extending a welcome on behalf of the Government .declared that the Government of the Dominion was entirely in accord with the objects of the Red Cross organisation, and would be glad to render every assistance possible to General Champain during his mission to New Zealand. The Hon J. A. Young (Minister of Health) paid a high tribute to the Red Cross societies, and said his Department was only too pleased to be able to cooperate with the organisation 111 its humanitarian activities. Mr. J. A. Flescher, of Christchurch, chairman of the New Zealand Executive of the Red Cross Society, also extended a welcome on behalf of the South Island branches of the society. Care of Ex-Soldiers. General Champain, who was most cordially received, said that such cordial appreciation of the. work of the Red Cross societies as had been voiced both by the civic authorities and the Government was something unique in his experience. There was not the same bond of sympathy existing in other countries between the civic authorities, the Government, and the Red Cross societies. The primary object of the organisation in peace times was to care for ex-sol-diers. They did not wish to interfere in any way with the work of purely civic organisations in regard to alleviating sickness and suffering amongst the civil population, but only desired to cooperate and help in the good work.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 10
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375CARE OF EX-SOLDIERS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 10
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