LOCAL EFFORT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1931, Page 15

LOCAL EFFORT

ASSISTANCE CONTINUES

Appeals for assistance for the vi«« tims of the Napier tragedy continue t« meet with a ready Tesponse in Welling* ton. The Education Department lias notified the Health Department that if experts in cookery are needed to help in the stricken area it feels sute that the boards will release their staffs of special instructresses for the purpose. One instructress has already volunteered for service. In response to a broadcast appeal .yesterday from 2YA, asking members'of tho AVomen's Division all over the southern portion of the North Island to provdo accommodation . for homeless people from Naper and Hastings^ accommodation has been promised ior over 600 people. "VVanganui ''provinco has offered to provide accommodation for 154 people. The Women's Institutes arc_ cooperating with the Eefl Cross Society, which also has the assistance in many ways of tho Girl Guides, Rovers, and Toe H members. To-morrow morning Captain .Qalloway (secretary), and Mr. C. HChap- vman, M.P., chairman of the Peacntima Division of the Red Cross Society,' aro leaving 'for tho devastated area- to r,eview the society's activities-and make a general tour of inspection with a view to increasing the efficiency of the society's endeavours for relief. £100 MEDICAL STORES SENT. Captain Dixon, tho society's representative at Hastings, advised- thnfc they were badly in need there of foo^l, clothing, and medical comforts. Major Power (Napier), also ■advised that k« was co-operating with the authorities in charge of relief. Supplies-of bandages, gauze, iodine, vaseline, and picne gauzo would be welcomed. The Red Cross immediately sent 'forward by; aeroplane medical Btores to the value of £100. Offers to accommodate refugees have come in to* the Red Cross freely, 'aiid accommodation is now^ available ipt over 400. Thirteen people had^alrea^y been billeted at noon to-day, .Transport to the homes offered is provided. Lady Hunter has offered her residence at Porangahauj Messrs. Hope Gibbons have offered the fiist floor of their building for accommodation of c for handling stores: tho Adelphi Cabarot'.haye offered their rooms from after Friday until Easter. One hundred and nine cars laden with medical stores, food stuffs, and clothes l'cft Wellington from the society's, rooms yesterday. Hofugfees coming to the, rooms are expeditiously cared for in many ways.' 'A relief receiving depot has been opened over Miss Brown's chemist shop at Khandallah. Miss Butchart is in. charge and clothes etc. left there will be dispatched to the society in town.