RED CROSS

Evening Star, Issue 24916, 14 July 1943, Page 6

RED CROSS

AND KINDRED AFFILIATIONS BIG POST-WAR JOB (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 13. The Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, opening tbe annual meeting of the Dominion Council of the New Zealand Red Cross Society to-day, praised the activities of the society and emphasised that although much had been accomplished there was still a tremendous amount of work ahead of the society, particularly in the post-war period. He urged that there should be no let-up in their endeavours. Sir Cyril Newall said he was gratified that there had been a solution concerning the wearing of the Red Cross emblem by V.A.D.s serving overseas. Making particular reference to the V.A.D. organisation His Excellency said that a most creditable performance had been put up, and obviously a tremendous amount of work had been done. He expressed the hope that people outside who -had not yet taken up the work would give it consideration, so that the ranks of the nursing V.A.D.s would bo increased. .The Junior Red Cross was another very important branch of activity, and one very close to his heart. The training of the young in that way made a great contribution to ■ the country in fitting them to take part in 'the reconstruction after the war.

His Excellency alluded to the work which the Red Cross Society and kindred organisations would be called upon to undertake in the period immediately following the-end of the war in helping to relieve the sufferings and privations of the overrun countries 01,, Europe, and expressed the conviction that the society would play a worthy part in that great activity.