JUNIOR RED CROSS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 13

JUNIOR RED CROSS

A SATISFACTORY YEAR

The third annual report of the New Zealand Junior Red Cross is considered to be the most satisfactory record which this young society has yet offered. The outstanding features of the year's work are the increase in numbers, the broadening out of activities, and the reorganisation of a number of dormant circles. The total number of circles is now 71. Lack of finance has prevented the visiting of more than a very few schools during the year, but it is hoped during the coming year to visit schools throughout the Dominion. Tho Education Department still ■ continues to give the Junior Red Cross its active co-operation, mid the union between the Junior Red Cross «»<1 the school is rapidly strengthening. Tho journal of the Junior Ked Cross is increasing in circulation, !»ad is very popular with the children. Gramophone recitals were again held during the year to assist iv financing the production of this journal, and machines ami records were provided .free of charge by local business firms, while the Master Carriers' Association allowed free cartage on all occasions. Sister Lewis gave home nursing and'first aid instruction in many schools, as did the other nurses of the society in their alloted districts.

The supply of garments to headquarters for distribution amongst children who are in need shows a gratifying increase, and at Christmas time numerous parcels of clothing, toys, etc., were sent to soldiers' families and others. The report gives records of the activities of the various circles throughout the countiy, and these are most illuminating, and show that Red Cross juniors can. do many useful things, ranging from the fencing-in of a school garden to the collecting and selling of fungus to raise funds. Correspondence with children m all parts of the world has also been kept up by members of tho society.