THE WOMEN'S APPEAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1915, Page 2

THE WOMEN'S APPEAL.

NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEER SISTERS. 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 to provide us with the bale necessities of life—food, shelter, clothing. Will you give us these? We gi>-e 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, but without blind, unreasoning optimism. We look into the future with that long, clear vision which is our racial heritage us women. We see line upon line of diseased and disabled men filing past for 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 be 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 ell'ovt, every financial resource. From one end of New Zealand to the other we women want to he organised and ready I'or immediate service. Some thirty or forty of us have now been called to work >n the local military hospitals. Others ave preparing quietly and steadily, waiting for their call. Will you not help us do our duty to the sick and wounded? Send all you can spare to The Secretary, New Zealand Volunteer Sisterhood, Box 300, Christchurcii, New Zealand.