NATIONAL VALUE
Red Cross Work Appreciation of the work of the Red Cross Society wais expressed by Dr. T. McKibbin, director of public hygiene, at the distribution of . Red Cross awards at the Town Hall last evening. “We of the Department of Health, he said, “appreciate the activities of this soeietv, and we wish it every possible success. “I have had some experience In the actual teaching work of the senior division of the Wellington Red Cross,’ he continued. “The subjects of hygiene, sanitation, first aid and home nursing are of definite value to the community—probably of greater value than most people. realise. Firstly, it is of personal value to the individual to know the laws of good health. To know these simple laws is surely better than taking medicine. Those subiects. too, have a definite value in domestic life.” , . “But more important still is the national value of the work. I suppose that officers of the Department ofTlealth are able, perhaps, to appreciate more than the average person what great national worth work of fhis kind is to'any country.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 13
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180NATIONAL VALUE Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 13
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