Red Cross Centre Agrees To Create Building Fund

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27408, 22 July 1954, Page 2

Red Cross Centre Agrees To Create Building Fund

Delegates from 53 sub-centres, as well as members of the executive of the North Canterbury centre of the Red Cross Society, attended an extraordinary general meeting in the society’s rooms yesterday. The meeting, at which the chairman (Mr A. E. Kincaid) presided, was called to discuss the advisability of the society buying a building for centre headquarters. After the newly-elected president (Mrs J. G. L. Vernon) had welcomed the delegates and expressed her pleasure at the large attendance. Mr Kincaid explained the terms under which the society occupied its present headquarters, and asked the opinion of the meeting on a proposal by the executive that the society should buy a property for its own use. It was unanimously agreed that a building fund should be inaugurated, with a view to buying a suitable building when possible. Mr Kincaid said that the building would be a memorial to the magnificent service Lady Wigram had given to the society for about 40 years. Mr C. Buchanan (treasurer), who proposed the motion to inaugurate a

building fund, detailed the present financial position of the society, and ways of raising sufficient money for the undertaking were discussed. Delegates undertook to acquaint their subcentres with the decision to start a building fund, and to report later on what support might be expected from them. It was mentioned that the centre had 4200 members. A scheme for raising the money was endorsed. It was agreed that labels be printed, and that each label represent a building block. A label will be given to every donor of £1 to the building fund. If, for example, a person gives £lO, then he will receive 10 labels or “building blocks.” These labels will be suitably worded. Mr Kincaid said the work of the society must go on. Its regular work was so important and so necessary that it must not be curtailed through members’ efforts to raise money for the building fund. It was heartening, he said, to have so many sub-centres represented at the meeting, and to find delegates enthusiastic about the prospects of securing a permanent home for the society