RED CROSS BRANCH
PROPOSAL OPPOSED
(Special to the "Evening'post.")
WANGANUI, This Day
"Here is a meeting called for the purpose of forming a branch of the Red Cross Society in Wanganui and a motion is moved directly against the proposal as outlined by Mr, Bridger, Director-General of the New Zealand Red Cross Society," said Mr. W. J. Rogers at the public meeting addressed by Mr. Bridger.
Opposition to the proposal was particularly strong from members and supporters of the St. John Ambulance Division. It was claimed that the establishment of the Red Cross would only mean a duplication of the work, and there was no need for another organisation. :
In the end, by a majority of two, it was decided to form a branch of the Red Cross Society, but the attempt to elect officers was not successful.
Mr. Bridger remarked afterwards that it was the strongest and most un-called-for display of opposition that he had ever seen at a meeting of that type.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 11
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