A PRESSINNG PUBLIC DUTY.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 October 1918, Page 4

A PRESSINNG PUBLIC DUTY.

An effort is being made to secure a thoroughly .representative Rod Cross Day in Taihape on the. 2Sth inst. Not one of those small affairs in which one considers,his duty- is doneby putting, a ' penny or a shilling pn the., drawing of a soldier, but a day that shall be truly representative of the giving of the whole Taihape district. The Committee that is organising the effort is, perhaps, the largest and most representative of any that has yet had management of any of Taihape’s war efforts, and it is hoped and believed that those who can help to swell the Red Cross fund will do so much more liberally than usual. It must be realised that if too much reliance is put upon working people the day that should be great will be a failure, as wages men, with a very few exceptions, find it quite beyond possibility to give largely and do justice to their homes and themselves. This is a wealthy district and obviously there are many who can afford to maintain the honours it has attained to for its generous support of everything for the benefit of the men they have sent to fight the common enemy. Our young men have gone to fight for our country, we do not want it said that we have ceased to care whether they are left to die for the very want of those Red ; Cross moans which are essential to lifesaving. The Committee is making provision for a day’s entertainment on Labour Day in which every man, and woman may contribute his or her little by purchasing a very full day’s enjoyment. A huge advertisement occupies page three of this newspaper, and we believe that every individual in our community will gladly fall in with the provision the Committee is making for supplying those medical comforts and that attendance which it might otherwise be impossible to give our lads as they lie wounded on the battlefield. We hope the community as a whole will refrain from making any other, engagements for Labour Day and that they will ally their efforts with those of the Committee most whole-soulledly. There are signs that the war will soon end, let us not flag in our desire to stand by our lads for the little while longer their lives are in jeopardy. We shall be doing a duty honourably and will, by giving every ounce of support and influence w*o can in making Labour Day, on the 28th inst., a record Red Cross Day for Taihape.