RED CROSS SOCIETY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1918, Page 2

RED CROSS SOCIETY.

j COMMITTEE MEETING. MAET TO BE CLOSED. A special meeting of the ladies' committe of the Xew Plymouth branch of the British Bed Cross Soeiety was held on Friday afternoon. Mrs A. Crooke presided. i'iniil statements in connection with the Copper Trail were submitted. The account of the citizen*' committee in connection with "Our Day'' showed a total of £1377 13s 3d. Tho Copper Trail, started on July 1, reached a final total of £4492 3s Id, the amount collected by the Citizens' Committee being included. The funds of the committee were reported to be in credit to tho amount of £2BO. The branch has been sending £lO each month to be spent on comforts for the men in the military camps, A letter has been received from Mrs Donald returning special thanks for the amount sent in November, which was appreciated more than ordinarily on account of the Influenza. The question of the Red Cross Mart in Devon Street was disoussed, and it waR decided that it should be given up. The feeling was that as tho Boclety would have the rooms in Queen Street anv special anneal for which need might arise could be conducted from there. It was that in February a sale of all jams in stock should bo held. Many ladies have been making jam for the Red Cross and keeping it until rennired by the cnmmlttee. In connection with the Queen Street depot it was reported that Mr. Stanley Shaw still insisted upon it being retinned free of rent at least until the end of the society's present financial vnr\r in March. and li snecinl vote of thanks was passed to him. . The meetin tr decided that the depot shall be closed as soon as the matprial on hanJ has been made up, and that it shall be re-ojened in the first week In Februtrv. The sum of £Srt wis received at the depot on Friday in subscriptions. If pvprvbody who has subscribed regularly in the past will continue to do so for a time it may obviate the necessity for a special appeal for funds It wn= decided that the annual meeting shall be held as soon after March 31 next vear as possible. In connection with the work dons by different people for "Our Day," votes of thanks were passed to the followCitizens' Committee. Mrs. E. Dockrill (secretary to the St. John Ambulance Association), Taranaki Dailv Xew= Mosirs. McT.eod and Slade, and Captain Stratford (treasurer, to Copper Trail),