RED CROSS WORK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 10, 15 December 1915, Page 6

RED CROSS WORK.

At last evening’s meeting of the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee, the secretary (Mrs A. W. Budge), reported that, in response to the Military Hospital Guilds’ (Wellington Branch) invitation she, as the appointed delegate, i attended .< a conference of patriotic bodies held in Wellington on December 7. The object of the conference was primarily to discuss the advisability of joining the British Red Cross Society. The report handed in by Mrs Budge was as follows:—“The Red Cross Fund and the Lady Liverpool Fund should be kept separate. The Red Cross was work done for the wounded soldiers, such as hospital ship, beds, etc. The Lady Liverpool: Fund was for comforts pure and simple for the well soldiers, such as lea-; ther waistcoats, holdalls, etc. Miss McLean, who had just returned from Egypt, , spoke of the great amount the British Red Cross are doing for our men in Egypt, and she was quite sure it would .he to, our advantage ,to join , branch* of ’ tbe'nVcl Cross, getting all the small towns around to join with us. and be quite willing to take work from the Wellington branch, I also took the liberty of promising for our committee that they make 50 holdalls' and 50 housewives a month, to be sent by the loth of each month for six months, commencing in January. I also arranged with the Lady Liverpool Fund secretary to be supplied with wool at any time we are in need of it. On December 7th I attended the conference at the Town Hall. Wellington, being one of about, sixty delegates from the various districts in the Wellington Military area. The Mayoress of Wellington, Mrs Luke, occupied the chair, and explained the resolutions, which were set tut as follows:—!. That all oragmsatious in New Zealand other than the Order of St. John be united under the title ol the “N.Z Branch of the British Rod

Cross Society,” keeping their ‘ inch viduality if they so wish by prefixing the name of their town or district before tlie words New Zealand; and at the same time co-operating with the Order of St. John, where that organisation exists. 2nd. The centres to, manage the details of the organisation, utilising as far as possible the machinery at present existing. 6th. That one or more representatives be/, appointed, unpaid, at each of the fol-1 . lowing places: Egypt, and Malta. Mrs ! i I

r.uko pointed out that the resolution made a point that the individuality of each society was retained. They were working with one object, and all small societies, she thought, should join up, for the fewer, small societies they had the better it would be.