3000 ARTICLES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 210, 13 June 1940, Page 4

3000 ARTICLES.

SENT AWAY BY THE RED CROSS. ASHBURTON’S CONTRIBUTION. “The Mid-Canterbury Red Cross Society has already forwarded overseas three large cases of new and almost new woollen clothing, cot covers and similar articles for the use of refugee children and there must have been at least 3000 articles in the cases,” said the President of the Society (Mrs F. Curtis) in a statement to a “Guardian” reported to-day. “Another case is being prepared and when it is completed it will he sent to the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild at Wellington,” added Mrs Curtis. “In every district in the County members of the Red Cross are knitting and making garments for refugees as part of our ordinary Red. Cross activities, and the Women’s Institutes and Women’s Divisions are co-operating in the holding of competitions for garments each month. “Members will continue to make up parcels of comforts for sick refugee children and these will he forwarded as usual to the British; Red Cross headquarters. Now that the national appeal for the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund is almost completed, delegates from all sub-branches have been called to a meeting in Ashburton on June 21, when plans for future activities will be arranged. In the meantime, offers to raise funds, and donations of money and materials will be gratefully accepted for the benefit of refugee children.”