Mrs T. H. Lowry Congratulatd on Red Cross Presidency
DRIVE FOR MORE MEMBERS. (Special to "Times.") HASTINGS, Feb. 18. That the New Zealand branch of the Red Cross Society was determined to make the Dominion “Red Cross minded" and that the organisation's membership would be increased substantially in the near future were statements made to a Napier audience last night by Mrs. T. 11. Lowry, of Okawa, new president of the society in New Zealand. The New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the Women’s Institute had pledged their support, she said, and she herself was determined that the movement should go from strength to strength. Mrs. Lowry was congratulated upon her appointment as Dominion president by tho Mayor of Napier, Mr. C. O. Morse, last evening. After thanking him for his congratulations, she made interesting references to her recent trip overseas, when she attended as New Zaland representative the world conference in Paris, of tho League of Red Cross Societies. In the course of her remarks she gave many sidelights o.*‘ her trip, in its relation to the lied Cross movement.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 42, 19 February 1937, Page 2
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