RED CROSS SOCIETY

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26672, 5 March 1952, Page 2

RED CROSS SOCIETY

CHRISTCHURCH SUBCENTRE

There was a record attendance of members at the annual meeting of the Christchurch sub-centre of the Red Cross Society held yesterday at the deanery, Armagh street. The president, Mrs Martin Sullivan, presided and specially welcomed new members. Lady Wigram, president of the North Canterbury centre .of the Red Cross Society, congratulated the sub-branch on the good work done by its sewing circle. “I see every garment that is sent into the depot/’ said Lady Wigram, “and I know the high standard of the work done by your members." The twelfth annual report detailed the activities of the sub-centre during the last year. With 94 members, the sub-centre had helped with the Red Cross annual street appeal and market, its members had visited former servicemen in hospital and elderly women in the Burwood Hospital, and distributed small comforts amongst them, and two members had delivered monthly parcels to four disabled servicemen, living in .their own homes. The sewing circle had continued to meet fortnightly and had made 100 new garments and 72 from secondhand clothing. To enable members to get to know p "L2'” p ? h + ? r ’ “S? at the same time to augment the sub-centre s funds an afternoon musical party had been held f w P w^? er Pome of Mrs B E.JH, Whitcombe, Park terrace. ’ j-L statement of receipts and expenditure showed that the assessment { 2i n ‘be j ye / r f£3o> a nd a donation of LIO had been sent to the New Zealand Red Cross, and a satisfactory balance was in hand.

was announced that the sewing M C oJ°^ begul its season °n March ZU, and that garments would be cut anLXd£?r rCh 13 ? rs Sullivan appealed for more members to join the mXX ClrC e / nd ®? id that S ifts °f new 21~” a L or ° f >j Oo u' c,ean second-hand garments would be welcome. frmn S ♦L Mowbr i a ? read a letter n . socre ’ ar y of the Returned British Prisoners of War .Eaton place, London, adthat ,!? ls association had 6000 tert™ and al i suf - tsring from Eastern diseases or tuberbeln Sl t^,- T °? hese j the association had heln th?m g f t °v end nourishi ng food to ke ? P V, p or re sain their J ‘hem al >le to cope H?of 1 / be J r dlsa bihties. The writer said d w ? s stln rationed in England and it was feared it would be further form2ri d duril ? g J he winter and parcels. s?r*? erly sent from overseas, had in n °u , bee P discontinued. He I t p P® a l e d for help for the pensioners. llft d^ d th to aflo r d help and it w?’ i® l l to the committee to decide AfU-°thl < h r?hef should be given. the business meeting, the Dean SulHv^l tC a Urch ’ Very Rev - Martin thech a Y e oun interesting talk on S 1 St -Martins In-the-Fields London, where he had worked for Sld'dri M ' S Tripp th “" k ‘- d him lor ±is Meal am „ D . Anderson, s. &S. son, G. T. Weston, and A. Williams' Measurer, MrsGT. Weston; Garton; committee. Mesf. Garton® KH 1 ' “saim M’ M E EnrieM h Misses «•

MERIVALE sub-centre The annual meeting of the Merivale SnSFtat Rcd Socte’ty tlrtav d Th.r» Mar y s schoolroom yesand Mre m D a larcc attendance. Resided. M ’ B ‘ Warren ' ‘he president. nUa l report reviewed the actiS Srment?H S X ar ' Jt Stafed ‘hat iiu garments had been made and with tofttedno^* 1 «« apd 19 th» sSi had been sent to the Red Cross central depot. Members con ?P®‘ e d monthly bring and buv W t h b» h Sreatlv added to the Sun ad / he J. Ded ‘0 prepare th» r» M L or distribution under smd Neighbours’ scheme to aged Chrktm.T’k Bon8 ' and during the a°j d ? { yB ’ f S ur me mbers had aw»^ d d delivered meals for two - , Ip addition some ’"ambers had visited former servicemen m the Christchurch Hospital, and the Burwood HospiXi k J? a u distributed small comforts helped at the annual Red Cross street appeal and market. Dealing with the sub-centre’s finances, the OPded . that £35 had been to the central Red Cross, *49 17s had been raised in’advance at a work-stall and by donations, for the a E p *r a1 -’ had been given to the Good Neighbours’ scheme, and £3 nad been contributed towards the cost of vegetables for meals provided under the scheme. Gratitude to all helpers ex Prcssed in the report and particular mention is made of Mrs W. S. Mac Gibbon who had lent her house last year for monthly meetings of the sub-centre and whose offer to do the same this year was gratefully accepted. Miss M. Holderness, advisory centre director of Red Cross voluntary aids, gave an informative talk on the Good Neighbours’ scheme, under which meals are served to elderly and infirm persons in their own homes. In a little more than two months, she said. 2000 pints of soup had been made and delivered, and 18 hot meals had been served regularly twice each week for many months. Another branch of the scheme was one which Miss Holderness warmly commended, and for it she asked for helners. This involved visiting the physically unfit in their own homes and giving help in tidying rooms, cooking meals or making tea and doing shopping. There was a great need for this neighbourly service, Miss Holderness said, and she appealed to members to help in this regm-d. Miss N. Enright thanked Miss Holderness for her interesting address.

Officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs Warren; vice-presidents, Mesdames J. G. L. Vernon, W. A Moore, T. F. Gibson, R. W. Morrow, C. W. Rattray D. G. Radcliffe, and W. b. Mac Gibbon; committee, Mesdames C. M. Ollivier, D. S. Murchison. £ J - Cordner, V. Holm Turnbull, ,C. H. Seymour, Ynyr Robinson, C. Robinson C. Cooper, F. Hiatt, Harold Wnght Maling, Guy Eeadel, F. G. Bristed, M. G. Smyth, Misses N. Enright and H. Biss; honorary secretary, Miss V. Youngman; honorary treasurer, Miss K. Ferguson. The resignations from the committee of Mrs L. A. Bennett and Mrs L. Donovan were accepted with regret.