WORK FOR RETURNED MEN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 195, 15 May 1936, Page 2

WORK FOR RETURNED MEN

* Red Cross Society Meeting The ordinary monthly meeting of flie Wellington branch of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John was held on Tuesday, the chairman of the executive, Mr. H. Rose, presiding. The secretary of the Wairoa branch of the R.S.A. wrote acknowledging supplies "of cigarettes and tobacco. These issues were greatly appreciated by the local ex-soldiers under treatment in hospital. Further supplies asked for had gone forward. A case of an Imperial exservice man under treatment at Ewart Ward was brought to notice, the requirement being boots, which were supplied. In response to a request from the R.S.A., clothing to tho value of £3 had been supplied to an Imperial soldier with a family. Following an inquiry from the Masterton Patriotic Society, the secretary was instructed to advise that body that admission to the Red Cross Home, Hobson Street, was in the hands of the medical officer in charge of treatment and was confined to ex-service meu of the N.Z.E.F. suffering permanent or recurring disability as a result of their war service. The proposals aimed at bringing about tho merger of the two existing. Red Cross bodies, received from the New Zealand Council, were discussed and approved. The matron at Pukeora Sanatorium reported that the Red Cross sub-centres in Hawke’s Bay had paid their customary visits, bringing with them various comforts, which were distributed among the patients. Messrs. Boyes, Williams and Anderson, official visitors to Wellington Hospital and Victoria and Ewart wards, reported that 52 ex-service, men had been visited aud comforts furnished. At Porirua, where there were 134 exservice men, Mr. A. H. Bath, the official visitor, reported that visits had been paid and the wants of the men attended to. A statement was received from headquarters showing that in the previous six months £564 had been disbursed by the joint committee on relieving distress among N.Z.E.F. men and their dependants. Seventeen N.Z.E.F. cases referred by the local R.S.A. had* been supplied with' clothing and nine disabled ex-imperial men were assisted with clothing. For the past three months £l7O/1/5 had been spent on comforts for ex-service men in hospitals and sanatoria in Wellington. Accounts amounting to £B9/10/6 were passed for payment. The following donations were gratefully acknowledged: Cases of apples, Mr. Lange-Bein (Nelson), Mr. Grainger (Nelson), Mr. Dawe (Nelson); illustrated papers, Hon. Mrs. Gammidge; cigarette papers, sweets and fruit, lad es’ committee, Kilbirnie R.S.A.; cakes, etc., Queen Margaret College girls, Miss Butchardt; flowers and pot-plants, Misses Poole and Mr. Burnett; magazines, Miss Jackson, Mrs. Castle How, Mr. Kane; bananas, Mr. McGee; grape and oysters, Lady Mvers; magazines and books, Mr. P. H. Bourke, Mrs. N. D. McLeod.