YET ANOTHER APPEAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 12 August 1915, Page 3

YET ANOTHER APPEAL

N.Z. VOLUNTEER SISTERS

The following circular, which has our whole-hearted sympathy, has been received by the ECHO for publication : —

We women of New Zealand are organising ourselves into a Volunteer Corps ready to help the sick and wounded. We want no payment for this work—just sufficient money to provide us with the bare necessities of life — food, shelter, clothing. Will you give us these ? We give ourselves, for one year or more, in this time of national need. Already pestilence settles down on our men-folk; already wounded soldiers return to our shores. As to these things, we are without panic, but without blind unreasoning optimism. We look into the future with that long clear vision which is our racial heritage as women. We see line upon line of diseased and disabled men filing past for months and maybe for years. Their call for human help sounds jn our ears. Find us unready, they must not. Will you help lus to be prepared for them ? Daily the necessity looms nearer and graver. There must be no delay. This is no individual appeal: it is a collective call. Every woman can work or pay : every man can aid with his money, We need every human effort, every financial resource. From one end of New Zealand to the other we women want to be organized and ready for immediate service. Some thirty or forty of us have now been called to work in the local military hospitals. Others are preparing quietly and steadily, waiting for their call.

Will you help us to do our duty to the sick and wounded ?

Send all you can spare tc — Miss E. A. Rout, Secretary, N.Z. Volunteer Sisterhood, Box 360, ChristchuTcta, N.Z.