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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31725, 8 July 1968, Page 6

Hello Everybody! Today, the projects of Red Cross depend on the willingness and reliability of community volunteers, many of whom have given years of unselfish service in the preparation, cooking and delivery of meals, in the Library Service, packing and sorting clothing, visiting the aged, the sick and the lonely and the myriad other tasks which Red Cross undertakes for the benefit of those in need in New Zealand. Volunteer service is unique, valuable and necessary both for the community and for the volunteer. As the population keeps expanding there will be more and more people competing for jobs, there will be more ill, more crippled, and more suffering from various disadvantages. The more people the Hospitals and Homes and social workers serve, the more help they’ll need. Budgets will not keep up With the population explosion. Either volunteers provide the extras, or nobody will. The extras to the age, the sick and the poor (yes, we have them in New Zealand), often spell the difference between hope and helplessness. Wherever there are people who could be helped but aren’t, the resulting problems affect the whole community. Red Cross is meeting the growing request* for aid, but a continuing supply of volunteers, especially in the younger age groups is essential. Do you know that an appeal Is made to the League of Red Cross Societies for aid to the victims of major disasters, at least once every 28 days on the average? If you help Red Cross ean help. Best wishes, RED CROSS. —Advt.