RED CROSS STUDY CENTRE

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 2

RED CROSS STUDY CENTRE

City Girl To Visit Canada

A tall, dark-eyed girl was flushed with pleasure yesterday when she received presentation gifts from the North Canterbury Red Cross Centre, to take with her to Canada when she goes to the international Junior Red Cross study centre in Toronto next July.

She is Miss Frances Quartermain, a 17-year-old pupil in the • upper sixth form at the Christj church West High School, and I president of the Junior Red Cross i Circle at the school. Frances, who has been chosen to represent New Zealand at the Canadian event has been a member of the Junior Red Cross for many years and shows splendid leadership qualifications Leather Gifts i Yesterday she received a handi some leather satchel with her initials inscribed on the corner. Inside was a leather-bound trip book, also bearing her initials, and a wallet. These were given by all the Junior members of the North Canterbury Red Cross i Society. The presentation was made by Christopher Perrin, the schoolboy president of the Christ- | church South Intermediate circle

of the Junior Red Cross. Miss T. G. Eldridge, on behalf of the Junior executive, presented Frances with a matching shoulder bag of black leather, also initialled.

Thanking members for her gifts, Frances spoke of the aims of the study centre which she will attend. “It is to promote international friendship as well as to celebrate the granting of the Junior Red Cross charter to Canada 50 years ago. and to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Red Cross,” she said.

“I feel I will benefit perhaps most of all from the international flavour of the gathering,” Frances said. “In so many ways the world does not agree and it will be wonderful to mix with all these other nations in something that we are all agreed upon and to work fervently for and with them,” she said. Exciting Programme

“As well as all the interesting study we will undertake. I believe there is to be a grand social programme. I am excited, and as well as learning much, I know I will have a great deal of fun.” She will leave in July with the other delegate from New Zealand, James Douglas, a pupil in form IV professional, at Matamata College. The two will fly to Canada where they will spend a week in Vancouver being entertained by colleagues in the Red Cross. Then they will travel across country to Toronto where the study centre is to be held on the campus of the Toronto University. A visit to Canadian farms, high schools and, fulfilling a dream Frances admitted yesterday, to Niagara Falls, is included in the programme.

Frances, who is interested in art. hopes to become a student at the Art School of the University c/ Canterbury next year.