AID FOR SICK AND WOUNDED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 5

AID FOR SICK AND WOUNDED.

COMBINED AUSTRALIAN MOVE-

MENT INAUGURATED

(Received May 28, 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, May 2s. An influential committee has been formed to carry out the Red Cross scheme to meet the needs of the sick and wounded. ' Mr Hugh Ward is organising a public appeal whereby he aims at raising £200,000.

Mr Holman, referring to the announcement that an endeavor would be made to raise .Red Cross funds in America, said there was no need for that. Australia could not afford to .have it said that she was not prepared to buy comforts for her own soldiers. The charity of her own people was unlimited, and the Government had already undertaken to inaugurate a combined movement throughout Australia for the sick and wounded. He was nerotiating with the Premiers of other States in regard to this matter.