HASTINGS RED CROSS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 29, 18 February 1937, Page 6

HASTINGS RED CROSS

FirstCommifteeMeeting of Year . HRST-AID CLASSES ' Tbe first meeting for-tbe- year bf *thc committee of the - Hastings siib-centrc of the Red. Cross Society was held in : the Red Cioss.rooms. on Tuesday. night, • Mr. S. ; Averill, presidfent, presided. . . : ; It f was; reported' tiiat the Mayor, Mi G. Maddisbn, ' had : kindly offered .io convene'a publie meeting th'i8'l(4,hurs-! " day) eveping, ' when .arrangements foj the. forthpoming'. visit to Haw&e's. Bay of M.' de Gielgucl "would be madei M. de Gielgud. would come with a wide experience .of -Red Cross . work in other copntries' wluch.'he had obtained while attached to the . secretariat of - the ; t^eague of- Red Ci'oss Societies, in- Paris. The Dominion president, M?s T. H; Lowry, an'd Sister "Stringer would " be tbe principal speakcrs at the meetings Support for a national Coronation appeal would- be sought.Advic© was ai«o received that Sister Norman, of Napier, would again be conducting elasses for first aid and homenursing and that special eiforts would be made this year to. extend the operation'of the elasses to the Convent and to the co\leges of Iona and Woodford House at Havelock North. The elasses at tbo High School and the adult evening elasses would " be continued," anjl it was hoped to maintain the high standard of previous years. A iiews item from headquarters indicate'd that • the gesture of th'e "New Zealand Red Cross Society, in offerin^ assistance to distressed fanjilies in tbe Aiherican flo'od disaster by way of me'at and butter shipments had. created a'favourable impression in the Sfates. Admiral Grayson, of the American Red Cross, had jnst cabled his society's appreciation of , this- offer but. had advised that sufficient funds for dealing with jthe problem had been raised in America , - Leave of . absence tv Mr Melville Bell, who is leaving Xor a trip to tha Old Country, was granted. * A -welcome to the new secretary. Mr Leiceste'r Roberts, was extend ed by the chairman.