RED CROSS SOCIETY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20198, 28 March 1931, Page 6

RED CROSS SOCIETY.

♦_- MISTING OF EXECUTIVE. At a meeting of the. executive and finance committee of the Canterbury 'Branch of the British Bed Cross Society and the Order of St. John, there were present Mr 0. J. - Bxraaldsbn (chairman). Lady Wigram, Mrs H. Hl' QmitU,'Mißß Guthrie, and Mr H. L. Bowker. The financial statement showed- that daring the .month of February 208 ex* service patients had. received attention at the Upper Sanatorium, Cashmere HiUffj at Queen Mary Jlqspital, Hanmer Spring*, at Ashburton, Hospital, . at Timarp Hospital, n% Westlandl|e.n T tal Hospital, at we JUtnnerdale Home, Christchuroh, at the Coronation Hospital, at the Suaayside Mental Hospital, at the Christchurch Hospital, and «s QUkpafciflnta, ang that the #*» penditure on clothing, tobacco, hospital requisites, extra food, moto* hire, amusements, end including grants -to,, the various matrons for ipiscellaneous {Wahaaeii, had totalled £lO6 Us . 4d. n addition t© the %M»WiJ«PWPfc' ture eir B*4 .Grow 01uh work,, which provided. meving; pntuni', furnishings? enraa, newapapaw. *>»«». and. other 'amusements, had totalled #4! & 9d. Accounts were passed for payment 9s follows:—Depot, 4570 U§ Wi gww*li £d6 5s 7d. Major Barnes' report ior February on hw visits to ex-service patients a* the gupnyfiide Mental JlespiteJ was received. The report showed the* 83 ' men were bejnqj supnlied witjj sofeaee.o, cigarettes, and fruit regpejstjveb/, -..„ Sister Christian's feport ©n,' »e? work in the Greyraanih district ier th« month of February eame before the meeting. It said .that a good deal of time had been expended in visiting people in the various outlying disr tricts and forming classes. A ' relief depot for Hawke's Bay « earthjroilke sufferers hftS been' opened in Greymouth under the Girl Guides, to which' there had been ft great response from:! people in the district who sent boxes of clothing and other gqods. These had been sent to the Cbrjstphurch fia» lief -Pepot far distribution. A relief depot bed opened in Hoki» tika, but this depot collected ' money only, as clothing was wanted for so many eases, qf poverty jp "the districts surrounding Hokitika. Meetings in 1 cannevipn with jhe formation of nurs* ing classes had been held in BobsonviUe, Tavlorville, including Brunner and Stillwater. Paroa, which includes Marsden, Cobden. and Runanga,, *nd nlasses ha<j been formed at' these places. The matpqn of the Greymouth Hospital had been interviewed, and" she would undertake to examine the students-4$ the conclusion flf the instruction.'- - Sister Christian's report w»s 'reeeived. and it was resolved to thank the fallowing people) who have assisted, with the formation of classes Allan, Paroa Mra Hill, pqbson, Mrs Pender. Taylorvrtle: Mrs McMahop, Brunnor, Mesdauies Meade and M.cRnnange, and Mrs farrett,