N.Z. VOLUNTEER SISTERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1432, 3 August 1915, Page 3

N.Z. VOLUNTEER SISTERS.

The Mayor, Mr Alf. Eraser, has received the following letter from the N.Z. Volunteer Sisters, whose headquarters are at Christchurch. It is headed “The Women’s Appeal’’:— “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, hut 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 lor months and maybe for years, Their call for human help sounds in our ears. Find us unready, they must not. Will .you help us to he 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 organised 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 lor their call.’’ The Mayor will be pleased to receive any contributions for the sisters and will give further information to anyone desiring same.