LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nursing Division. Those interested are reminded that First Aid. Home Nursing and Hospital Certificates will be presented this evening by Mrs N. H. Prior, in Ihc Y.M.C.A.. at 7.30 o'clock. .Nurse Craig has also kindly consented to address the gathering. Red Cross Activities. In a report covering the activities of the Red Cross Commissioner in the United Kingdom, Dr. Alexander Gillies, for the Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Rod Cross Society, an indication is given of the wide scope of the work. Visits were paid to hospitals. Christmas parcels were provided for all New Zealand airman in hospital, three reception hospitals opened, surgical equipment provided. comforts given to the Warbrook Convalescent Home, enquiries made concerning civilians, contact maintained with the Joint Council Prisoners of War Department, etc.

Dawn Anzac Day Parade. A dawn ceremony of remembrance is to be held at the Citizens' War Memorial, Wellington, on Friday next. Anzac Day. War veterans will parade in Bunny Street .opposite the railway station. at 5 a.m.. and the ceremony will commence at 5.30 a.m. Both serving and discharged men of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force arc invited to be present. The general public is invited to attend. Prisoners of .War. Mr 11. D. Acland. Christchurch, has advised Mr C. J. S. Harcourt, Wellington, that he received a cablegram yesterday from bis daughter. Miss Phillippa Acland. stating that the captain, crew and passengers of the Port Hobart, which was captured by a German raider in the Atlantic some 500 miles northcast of Porto Rico on or about Novcmbcr 24 were nil safe, and wore prisoners of war in a camp in France. Among the Port Hobart's passengers were two New Zealanders. Miss Acland. Christchurch, and Miss Eveline Harcourt, Wellington