PEACE TIME COMMITTEE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 32, 7 August 1923, Page 7

PEACE TIME COMMITTEE

WELLINGTON RED CROSS.

- There was a good attendance of members when the monthly meeting of the Peace Committee of the Wellington Red Cross was held. Mr. T. Munt presided. Correspondence dealt with included a letter from the Director of Technical Colleges stating that an advisory committee was about to be set up for the purpose of advising the board: (a) As to courses of instruction and curriculum of subjects; (b) as to equipment and accommodation required; (c) assist board in securing services of suitable instructors; (d) to supervise the work, and asking the Red Cross Society to appoint one representative. Sister, J. E. Lewis was unanimously elected to the position.

The secretary, British Red Cross, London, complimented the local branch on its association with tho municipal authorities in connection with Health Week campaign. The secretary further intimated that he had had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Collins, chairman of the New Zealand executive, and had conversed with him upon Red Cross matters in general.

A cable from London stated that the British Red Cross Society has a supplemental charter authorising peace-time activities, and therefore, the New Zealand Red Cross, being a branch of the British Society, no occasion arose for obtaining a separate charter for peacetime work in the Dominion.

The secretary reported that the Tararua Tramping Club had approached the society with a, request that instruction in first-aid under the auspices of the Red Cross be arranged for its members. This had been agreed to, and a class, which was largely attended, had already commenced. Tuition would differ somewhat to that given in ordinary first-aid classes, being arranged to embrace such subjects as snow blindness and other mishaps likely to befall mountain climbers.

Mr. Goldberg intimated that he was visiting Australia for a period exteuding over eight weeks, and asked for leave of absence, which was agreed to. The society desires to thank Lady Bell, Mrs. Goyder, of Wadestown, members of the junior Eed Cross, Upper Hutt School, and an anonymous donor on the Terrace for gifts of books and magazines for distribution among civilian patients in the Mental Hospital, Porirua. Mrs. C. G. Wilson and Councillor C. H. Chapman were unanimously elected .to the committee.

The chairman reminded the committee of the. forthcoming Health Week campaign, which would ba held in October. The society, as in the past, decided to co-operate in every way possible with the civic authorities in promoting this useful service.

In reference to junior Eed Cross work, the following reports were received:— From the general secretary, Australian Red Cross Society, Victorian Division, slnting that junior circles had ' been" formed in the schools of Geelong. From the the secretary, Junior Red Cross. Bideford School, asking for badges and "Junior Red Cross Bulletin," and stating that members of the circle at the school were about to undertake the planting of trees and growing of seeds and vegetables for sale for the purpose of augmenting their funds and expanding their usefulness in the. district. From the secretary, Junior Red Cross, Upper Hutfc School, stating that the circle had had a "day" in the district during which fresh eggs were collected for ex-service men under treatment in Wellington Hospital, and books and magazines .for civilian patients in Poriruß Menial Hospital. Names were also submitted of juniors desirous of exchanging correspondence with. members of Eed Crocs country circles.