WELLINGTON RED CROSS

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 36, 11 August 1920, Page 9

WELLINGTON RED CROSS

EXECUTIVK MEETING,

A considerable and varied amount of business was transacted at the monthly meeting of the Wellington Red Cross committee, held at the Mercer-street depot, Mr. T. Young presiding. Considerable discussion arose over a letter from General M'Gavin concerning a home for chronic invalids (eoldiers). The General stated that such homes had been established in other countries, and one would be required in Wellington later on. Mr. Young said that it had been decided that it was inadvisable to spend a, large sum of money in a place that would only be wanted perhaps for a few years. After | discussion,, it was decided that a. pla.es might be leaded for, a period. The matter was held ovei' For a month, and in the meantime the committee' will be ready to consider the lease .of any s\iitabla place offered. General M'Gavin also wrote concerning the sum of £1208, the balance of the Countess of Liverpool General Fund. This had been allotted to the four centres to be applied to recreational purposes jn chronic homes. Wellington's portion would be £302. A letter was received from, the secretary of the New Zealand executive enclosing a cable from Sir David Henderson referring,to the starving .children in Europe, and the pledge given at 'the Geneva Conference that the' Bed Cross should issue appeals all over the woTld. Some discussion ensued, and it was not thought advisable to make'a public appeal. It was therefore resolved that, if the Department of Internal Affair? consented, . £1000 be sent to London headquarters for distribution to the fund in Europe. . Four hundred pounds required for work at the Waipukurau Sanatorium was granted, and a report of the expenditure since April last {was received. It was decided, on the motion of Mts. Luke, that a report of the monthly expenditure of tho grant mad© to the matron at Trentham be supplied regularly. Correspondence was received in reference to granting a sum of money to a blind soldier, who was settling in Wellington, and. had received grants from the Repatriation Department and Patriotic Societies towardsf the .purchase of a house. The question was discussed at some length, and it was finally agreed that, while sympathising with the" case mentioned, the committee felt unable to make monetary grants out of Red Cross funds to returned soldiers. A letter of thanks was read from the Salvation Army regarding bandages supplied to them for the leper stations. These bandages had been some left in stock, and had been donated to the Army for suoh work.