RED CROSS MEETING AT STOCKHOLM

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25245, 25 July 1947, Page 2

RED CROSS MEETING AT STOCKHOLM

TWO N.Z. DELEGATES CHOSEN

Mrs G. Hennessy, A.R.R.C. (Waimate), and Mr C. G. White, 0.8. E. (governor for the New Zealand Red Cross Society), have been appointed to represent the New Zealand Red Cross Society at an international conference to be held at Stockholm in 1948.

The meeting will be an important one for the Red Cross because since the Second World War the conventions of the international organisation have been revised to meet possible requirements in time of war with a view to the protection of civilians. The conventions will have to be ratified by all Governments which signed the Geneva Convention, and this will be the main work of the conference.

The difficulties of entertaining the week-end guest under the present rationing system in England were described by Mrs A. C. Brassington when she spoke yesterday at a meeting of '.he Travel Club. “If you go away for the week-end you‘must take an emergency ration card. Otherwise you must take the remnants of your week’s rations. If you do not do this you simply cannot be fed. It is not possible to entertain guests under any other conditions,” Mrs Brassington said. The hospitality of the English people was as great as it had ever been, she added. It often happened that the hostess would spend the week’s ration for the household on the week-end guest’s visit. “Everywhere 1 went I found that wonderful English kindness to New Zealanders,” Mrs Brassington added.