APPEAL FOR FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 6

APPEAL FOR FUNDS

Comforts For Members Of The Armed Forces East night’s speaker in the campaign for contributions to the patriotic funds was the chairman of the Joint Council of the. St. John Ambulance and the Red Cross Society, Sir James Elliott. The needs of the sick, wounded and captive, he said, were of paramount importance. They should stir the very depths of one’s compassion and gratitude. “I cannot emphasize too strongly’ that not a penny of the money subscribed has been subject to Government control or interference, or spent in any way other than the purpose for which it was given,” said Sir James Elliott. “Donations have helped the suffering Poles, the Greeks, the Czechs and other cruelly oppressed people, and the stricken in Malta in their anguish and in their everlasting glory. They have helped the seamen in both the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy and the survivors of the battles of the air. Our New Zealand Red Cross Commissioner sees that every' New Zealand hospital has Red Cross supplies, and well over 6000 New Zealand prisoners of war have, at the sole cost of the people of New Zealand received food every week to save them from hunger, sickness, or perhaps death itself.

“Our funds are now low and we need the help of everyone for those of whom it has been written: ‘At the going down of the sun and iu the morning we will remember them.’ We do not need rhetoric to stir us, for, after all, it is maiuly a question of simple duty, for we must not forget that we are our brothers’ keejters, and owe our duty to those who suffer for us more than we owe to ourselves.”