The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1916. TAIHAPE RED CROSS WORK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 63, 14 March 1916, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1916. TAIHAPE RED CROSS WORK.

(With which is incorporated The Tai bape Post and Waimarino News.)

There is a work in connection with the war which is secondary in importance only to that of winning it, and that is the care of those who having barely escaped with their lives need nursin gback to health. Men are apt to look past and underi’ate their obligations to these wounded soldiers, but not so with women, they will sew and knit from morning till night building up comforts for the lad at the front or in the hospital. Taihape women are in the front ranks of the women of the Dominion in this respect, but we cannot say that they are supported by their men folk as they certainly deserve to be. Recently, they worked for weeks, and importuned the district for gifts of produce, or anything else they could sell, ° n bohalf of the French Red Cross work, but the net result was about one tenth of what the village of Hunterville contributed to the same fund. It was known what was about to happen in France —what is now happening 'around Verdun. It was known that in the oncoming slaughter there would be need for all the doctors, nurses, drugs and other medical accessories and necessities, and an effort was made throughout the British Empire to raise the money th'at would save the lives of thousands of brave men. Our women worked nobly and unremittingly, but for some reason cur people did not respond. It may be that psychological conditions were unfavourable, but be it what it may, our women though disappointed were not disheartened, and they intend to (jive us all another opportunity to make good cur remissness on Tricolour Day. The Hibernian Society has been good enough to hand their luncheon berths to the ladies to be run for Red Cross purposes and it is for every man in this locality to see that our women do not have to spend one penny of their prospective income in providing for the work of love they have gladly taken on. Meat, bread, tea, butter, sugar, even down to salt and pepper will be wanted. Now, men of Taihape, are you going to see the women who have the anguish of your injured sons ip their mind’s eye, stand looking at each other on the sports ground, on St. Patrick’s Day, because they are short of something that is necessary to make their efforts 'a complete success? Taihape has not contributed to Red Cross Work what it is e.asi’y capable of giving, and we trust that preoccupation will not 'again be allowed to render the work of our Red Cross organisation a matter for disapneintment, but that notice of contribution.- will he sent to the chairwoman, Mrs. A. L. Arrowsmith, at the earliest opportunity.