RED CROSS FUND.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15917, 2 June 1917, Page 11

RED CROSS FUND.

MEETING OF EXECUTIVE,

Tho oftentive of the Red Cross met yesterday afierooon. - Present —Mr Arthur K. G. Rhodes (chairman), Meodamoa A. Boy In and AVilliame, .Lieutenant-Colonel CreswftU. Hon. .T. Borthirick, Meters H.' L.' Bowkcr» jnn., E. Nordon, J. A. P«nn«tt, H. M. Reeves, M. J. Gresson, and P. 3->. Hallenalem. An apology for absence was received from Mr W. T. Robinson.

In connexion with tho entertainment of returned eoldiens at tho Y.M.C.A., it *•* deoided. on the chairman's motion, to con» vov \ho executive's thanks to tho Indira, to the members of tlio C.D.C., and to member# of the Canterbury Automobile Association for the assistance rendered on tho occasion. The monthly cash statement for May showed:—Balance in bank, May Ist, £954i> ]4fl6d; receipts, during May, £3791 35b lOd; total, £13,332 10a 4d; expenditure, £3307 8u Gd, leas sundry branches in. crcdit (approximate) £050—£9775 Is lOd; P.OAB. emergency fund for material, £1037 ■ 12s, -Gd *, Cathedral equaro sales' depot,-''£2300;.; total. £13,112 14s 4d. Inetadod an tho eapenditoro was tho Runz of £871 8s 3d, halaaoe of Day'V Fund Temitlnd.-, 'materisl 1 imrchoeed. ' £13 - 53 13s 3d; eomfbtia puichiUßied,; J304 OsjOcL; ! and Temittanow, £850;,. •• _ ;; % •■' ■ Tho- principal - eubeeriplicrrw daruitr ,'34»y 1 Were:—T«.:"WTiaro«danco £25,'.Mbtaek«, asid . i Riwa-ka Red Oroas £55, Soaigitt Btauieh. jBIOO, 1 Canterbnry Patriotic Fruit Show £296 9a/6d (also £200 shown eepaxaidy for AxoQmry Qomnrittee), 11. and Jj. Lcajruo (GbwWiiw) £50, Hurunui Trsiidonts £14,. Cfaemoi JLadjan' Belgium end Patriotic Conrmittoe JUS 25:.9 d, , R'angiou, Branch £20, Diooeeaa : • •Tlic ccntral o8V» of the_ HcS. ComtTßellington, acknowledged rcooipt of £50, oefeg Canterbury's ehaTo of oeniral ofifioe expcoMK , £100 from tho Lyftelbm Bed Cnms ferjtto Jfew Zealand Bed Oram CommiUeat; <CS wjm • the Woolston Branch for banda*s» for Sfew Ze&landeris %v front; 4SH£ ft* 73. jcy.iibc British Rod CroBR Society: «md. 3d for tho .New Zetland Bed flaw Cam- N mKtee. • "j, j A communication rmpcxiunc yroptmen. DisabJed Soldiers' Colics waco*"Rhaed, ao action beinc taken. Mattem to bo Hm.-Kpfmach- > ing confercncD in Wollbgtot with* ■ one being a request from permKwion In rpetu? Bed Croas innds .oS tej»ching trades "to soldun*. , *Tho chairman said that if trado boin;r taught to soldiers while they wcro in - hospital ho thought that <thcy might ejO ' a, subsidy, a«*uch instruction might hclp'WA wounded men towards tnoovcty.

Tho Hon. J. BorClnrick said <Mt tfarr mpendiiure of Red Cross funds oa such 1 instruction -would be advisable' provkkri th«* mro were still under treatment in hospital. Thei general opinion of the execuiivo that the chairman sfaouM bo left free- io'ex- ■ pmo <Uie «xecatarcV>. views at tho coniemu*. Tho htmontry Intlmsa maataeer of tltA "Here Crass Becoid" (Btr. E. Nordon) forwarded the audited balxnce-heet of the publication for thpperiod «n£ed April 30 th, Tt eipnred a praQiof £130 21& ScKor'tho year» The- letter -was Teccrved.