SICK AND WOUNDED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1940, Page 6

SICK AND WOUNDED

ACTIVITIES OF RED CROSS AND ST. JOHN. SOME ITEMS OF EXPENDITURE. According to a summary of the Red Cross activities under the joint council of the Order of St. John and New Zealand Red Cross Society, the sum of £lO,OOO sterling granted for the relief of air raid sufferers in the United Kingdom has been paid over through the National Patriotic Fund Board to the Lord Mayor’s Red Cross and St. John Fund, London. This amount is over and above the £lO,OOO sterling previously granted the joint war organisation for ordinary purposes and the £lO,OOO sterling paid to the same body to be used on behalf of medical comforts for New Zealand Expeditionary Force men. Since the inception of the crisis, the sum of £13,672 6s 9d has been expended to date from the sick and wounded fund in supplying medical comforts at this end. In addition £42,500 sterling has been remitted to be dispersed through the joint organisation abroad in medical relief to the troops and airraid sufferers in the United Kingdom. Each man in hospital during Christmas will receive a gift parcel, containing soap, shaving brush, facecloth, handkerchief, barley sugar, biscuits, shaving stick, toothbrush, book, socks, chewing gum .and hospital bag. Under the Empire Training Scheme the council has agreed to supply comforts to each transport carrying air force personnel to continue .their training abroad. The medical officer in charge of each body will be handed £25 on imprest, to enable him to meet any contingency in supplying the needs of those who might fall indisposed en route. The council has also agreed to make available to the medical officers in charge of general hospitals in connection with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, wherever they may be stationed, the sum of £lOOO and the medical officer in charge of field ambulances the sum of £5OO to be dispersed in meeting the needs of the sick and wounded under their care.