COLLINS CUP CONTEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 7

COLLINS CUP CONTEST

I SECOND

PLACE

Two teams were sent by Wellington to compete at New Plymouth for the championship cup donated some years ago by the late Dr. W. E. Collins, M.L.C., for supremacy in home nursing. It is held annually in various centres under the auspices of the Red Cross Association, and this year drew record entries. Napier won the cup, with Wellington A a close second and Wellington B fourth. The Wellington team comprised Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Cordery, Misses Dick, Bennett, and Resnick, and Miss ■■ D. Cooper (coach).

In the unavoidable absence of Mr. I. J. Bridger, Director-General of Red Cross for New Zealand, the cup was presented to the winners by the Mayor of New Plymouth, Mr. E. R. C. Gilmour, who stressed the interest taken by Dr. Collins in the work of home nursing. The competition had, he said, undoubtedly led to a fostering of efficiency in this valuable work. Speaking for New Plymouth people, Archdeacon Gavin said that the seeds of Red Cross were sown on the battlefield, and he recalled that, when in hospital in London during the Great War, the ward in which he lay had only one trained nurse, who carried on with the remarkably* efficient aid of volunteers. The work, he stated, had languished after the war until revived through the great work of an American, Mr. Henry Davidson, and it actually spread before long to no fewer than 65 countries, and still carried on for the benefit of mankind. The Red Cross would, in his opinion, be needed more than ever in the days to come.