AUSTRALIAN SICK AND WOUNDED
NO NEED FOR AMERICAN FUNDS. MR. HUGH WARD'S APPEAL. (Received May 28, 8.35 a\m.) SYDNEY, This Day. An influential committee has been appointed to carry out a Red Cross scheme to meet the needs of the sick and wounded. .Sir. Hugh J. Ward is organising a public appeal, and is aiming at raising £200,000. Mr. Holman, referring to an announcement that an endeavour Avould be rnnde to raise Red Cross funds in America, said th^re was no need for t^hat. Australia could not afford to have it skid that she was not prepared to buy oomforts for her own soldiers. The charity of our own people wss unlimited. T^he Government had already undertaken "to inaugurate a combined movement throughout Australia for the sick and wounded, and he was negotiating with the Premiers of the other States in the matter.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 125, 28 May 1915, Page 7
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143AUSTRALIAN SICK AND WOUNDED Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 125, 28 May 1915, Page 7
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