PATRIOTIC APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 11

PATRIOTIC APPEAL

Meeting In Lower Hutt A meeting of the joint committee of the Red Cross Society and Order of St. John was held at the home of the mayoress of Lower Hutt, Mrs. J. W. Andrews, to make preliminary arrangements for the appeal to be launched on behalf of the sick and wounded on May 12, which is the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Reference to this humanitarian appeal will be made from the churches on that day, and V.A.Ds. will attend in uniform. A public meeting will be held at the Lower Hutt Borough Council Chambers on May 9 to make plans for a street day, which will be held throughout New Zealand on May 23, and there will also be a house-to-house collection. The meeting will be addressed by Major J. Abel, Dominion treasurer of the joint committee, and honorary director of organization for the appeal. The local committee of the joint council comprises Mrs. J. W. Andrews, chairman, Mrs. E. I. Hubbard, secretary, and Mesdames J. Mitchell, F. G. Thompson, G. Beeson, and Miss B. Kirk, representing the Lower Hutt Red Cross Society, and Mrs. Colqulioun, treasurer, and Mesdames O. Bonifant 'and Walker, and Misses N. Bowles aud R. SHverwood, representing the Order of St. John. At this meeting it is hoped to enlist- the support of the public for this effort, and any other avenues employed to raise funds needed for hospitals, grants to hospitals, transport of wounded, aftercare of sick and wounded, and grants overseas. The committee is confident that this urgent appeal on behalf of the National Patriotic Fund for the sick, wounded and distressed will meet with a most generous response.