JUNIOR RED CROSS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 76, 27 September 1927, Page 12

JUNIOR RED CROSS

THE WORLD CONFERENCE

PROGRESSIVE NEW ZEALAND

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, sth August.

Three New Zealand delegates attended the 'conference of the Junior Bed Cross Societies, which was held at Brussels. These were Mr. ■ li. O. H. Tripp, 0.8. E., M'ss S- Nathan (secretary of the New. Zealand branch of tho British Bed Cross, during the war), and Miss Hume, of Wellington (who has been on the Continent for som'o time studying French). Thirty-four countries sent delegates to the conference. M. Drousart,: tho Director-General of the Belgian Bed Cross Society, wns elected chairman of tho meeting. M. Wolf, president of the Belgian lied Cross Society, welcomed the delegates. M. Bauwens, the- Secretary-General of Public Instruction, representing tho Ministor of Sciences and Arts in Belgium, addressed the delegates. After welcoming the visitors in tho namo of the Government, ho said that tho Govornment were so impressed with the value of tho teaching and work of tho Junior Red Cross in the schools that it hoped to see their ideals taught in uvery school in Belgium. Dr. Drieul (the Chief Public Health Officer in Czecho-Slovakia), read nn interesting paper on MHenlth, the principal requirement of- education.". Ho proved himself a strong supporter of the principle of the Junior Kod Cross being introduced into every school. Interesting papers were read by representatives of many countries on various subjects connected with tho Junior Red Cross.

\ WORK IN NEW ZEALAND,

Mr. Tripp was asked to address the conference. .He said ho wanted first of all on behalf of himself and tho other New Zealand delegates to thank the members of tho Belgian Eed Cross for their hospitality, and also to thank all those who had organised the conference for what they had done for tho New Zealand delegates. They arrived as strangers in a strange country, but they soon found that they wero surrounded by friends from all quarters of the globe. The fact that 34.coun.tries had sent delegates to the conference, Mr. Tripp continued, showed the importance which was being attached ,to the Junior Bed Cross movement throughout tho world.

Mr. Tripp referred to the work of tho New Zealand branch of the Junior Ked Cross. He said that he and his co-dolegates rdpresented n small community but a very progressive 9110. They had formed somo 70 circles of members in the Dominion, and tho members wero instructed in the same subjects as the members in other part 3 of the world,. They taught tho children how to be healthy and how to holp others to keep their health, tho value of rendering service to those who were sick, and also to correspond through the Bed Cross with children in other parts of the world. Last year the Eed Cross childrr/i in New Zealand corresponded with other children in twenty different countries. . In his opinion too much importance could not be attached to 'the encouragoment of correspondence. In this way the children of the different nations of the world would get to know something of one another and the more tho different nations . knew something of one another the less chance there would be of misunderstandings in tho future. As the question of the health of the children had been so much discussed it might interest tho delegates if he referred' to the great work that Sir F. Truby King had done in New Zealand for babies. He traced the history of the Plunket nurse* and the Karitane homes in New Zealand, and said that now, so far as the death rate of babies was concerned, New Zealand had the lowest in the world.

A civic reception was hold at the Hotel do "Ville, and the delegates were shown over that beautiful building. The Belgian' Red Cross organised, expeditions to Oate/i-i, Bruges, and Waterloo, and the visitors shown over various .children's hospitals and institutions for the training of delicate children or children whose parents are consumptives.

The Association football match played at Newtown -Park yesterday between Ghnstehurch V.M.C.A. fourth and fifth grade teams and Wellington secondary schools fourth and fifth grade teams resulted in a win for the 'Christchuruh team in each case. The fifth grade team won by 4 goals to 2, and the fourth grade team won by i goals to .3.

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