BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY.
ITS FUTURE OPERATIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, May 15. The annual report and balance-sheet of the Wellington centre of the New Zealand branch of the British Red Cross Society was presented at tile annual meeting last night. It showed that the centre had a credit balance of £71,318. Ueneral Richardson, addressing the meeting, after eulogising the work done by tlie society during the war, proceeded to outline the New Zealand Red Cross as he hoped it would become. He described it as one organisation' only, in which was contained the St. John's Ambulance Association. Wherever its branches existed it should have its. own charter, and there should be four district organisations working under one central body. These district organisations would be split up into detachments, each detachment to be again divided so that every town and village would have its own work to do. He thought that workers should wear a distinctive uniform. This was done in England when the New Zealand Red Cross was being organised. All the workers were enrolled and a distinctive uniform got for them with New Zealand emblazoned upon it.
In regard to the Red Cross in New Zealand, the speaker suggested that each district should be given a badge, representing its own detachment, and it should be properly organised with its own head. That the New Zealand Red Cross should have its own charter he itronjly urg«d. All women member*
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1919, Page 6
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