RED CROSS SOCIETY
MR L. DE GIELGUD'S VISIT
During August gifts were distributed to 94 men at the Mental Hospital and clothing issued to 45 pensioners on behalf of the Red Cross Society, according to a report made at the monthly meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Centre. Lady Wigram announced that the programme for the visit of Mr Lewis de Gielgud, under-secretary-general for the movement, with headquarters in Paris, had been completed. On September 27 the Mayor (Mr J. W. Beanland) would give a civic reception in the City Council Chambers at noon. A meeting, at which the Mayor would preside, would be held in the Radiant Hall at 3 p.m.. when Mr de Gielgud would give an address illustrated with pictures of his travels. Junior Red Cross members from the schools would form a guard-of-honour under Mr A C. Maxwell. Mr de Gielgud would leave for the south on September 28 accompanied by Mrs de Gielgud and Mrs T. H. Lowry, president of the New Zealand Red Cross Society.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22193, 9 September 1937, Page 8
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