BRITISH DOMINIONS WOMAN SUFFRAGE UNION.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 246, 18 December 1915, Page 8

BRITISH DOMINIONS WOMAN SUFFRAGE UNION.

WAR RELIEF WORK A public meeting and exhibition of gifts and clothing from the British Dominions Woman Suffrage I'nion to sufferers from the war in the Homeland and Belgium, was held in London lost Jul\ Ifiis M. C. Non comb, Hon. Secretary, B. D.W.S.U., read a report of the war relief work of the I’nion. She told how in the first days of the* war the Women’s Suffrage Societies had stopped their own special work and devoted their offices, their resources, and their army of trained voluntary workers to the care, mainly, of women and c hildren in distress through the war. Miss Newcomb had appealed to the* British Dominions over sea, and she told how nobly they had responded to her appeal. The part of the report telling of New Zealand’s answer to that appeal is specially interesting to us. Last January our gifts started to arrive in the Homeland, our Government taking them in transports free of charge, and defraying all the expenses of delivery in London. Lady Stout sent much beautiful clothing. The Wellington District Union, per Mrs Boxall, sent warm and useful clothing, also i(xm> dainty bags, each containing a handkerchief and a coin. The boys and girls of two schools had assisted with these gifts, and sent charming messages and letters with them. Christchurch also sent cases of warm clothing, one being from the W.C.T.U. The following money contributions were sent from New Zealand: —Lady Stout, j£io; Miss Ellis Wilkinson, £i ; 111 D’Ai j Hamilton, ios; Mr and Mrs Knsom, £s; Mi'S Lovell-Smith, ss; .Miss Bishop, £1 ; Kaiapoi W.C.T.U., 265; Invercargill, proceeds of a concert given by girls and boys of the Southland High School., jC'M).