RED CROSS

Nelson Evening Mail, 6 June 1917, Page 8

RED CROSS

MEETING OF NELSON CENTRAL COMMITTEE. The montlilv meeting of the Nelson I Central Red Cross Committee was held | at Hallonsteins' rooms yesterday. afterlion, Mrs W. Lock presiding. Acounts were passed for payment amounting to £5 18s Bd. The statement of accounts ,in connection with the Red Cross Fete at the end of Apnl was. presented. This showed the'total receipts to be £904 15s lOd, the principal items of rpv-enue being from the stalls, etc.. £-34; admis- * sion at gates. etc.. £49 13s 'Bd £7 10s f sale of Mayoress's Flag £252 0s 6d: hard-up dance, £ls lis 6d ; concert, £l4 6s: and Apple Day £3l 5s 6d._ The net result is the addition of £852 <s 8d t othe general fund. • , Acknowledgments were from Sir Robert Hudson, chairman of Finance ■Committee .of the Joint War Committee. for sums amounting to £7OO. Sir j Robert wrote: "I beg that you will accept ' our most warm thanks for this further practical evidence of your sympathy "with our 'work, and that you will ' allow-me to assure all concerned of our profound and sincere gratitude for the. splendid generosity of. the Nelson (Newj .Zealand) Red Cross Fund to us in our : ■ endeavours to aid the sick and wounded.!' . The hon. secretarvy (Miss J. loml'n- • son) reported as follows :-—"Last month the 5 sum of £IOOO was cabled to England. The country branches are keoincr up • their reputation, the Dovedale Patriotic Committee sending in £2B 6s from a special effort, and a similar sum from the samp committee has been donated between the two 'Red Cross Sowing Guilds at Thorpe and Dovedale. Tapawera has ■ sent'in a further sum of £2l 7s 3d. which makes £Bl 7s 3d for their Gala - Day on Easter Monday, and Rockville a sum of £3O 10s from a -soc'al evening. Tn town. Chaplain-Maior Taylor s interesting lecture resulted in a net return of £l9 15s, and a further anonymous sum of £ls was paid to Chaplain Tavlor as •a result of the tribute paid by him to 1 the wonderful work the Red Cress was doing. A children's partv given bv the Misses Josephine Brad dell. Lola Hume, arid Macgie Kincaid benefited the fund by '£7 13s. The secretary of the Murchison Committee (Mrs Clayton) forwarded £69 12s as the May collect'ons, Which constituted a. record* for that branch as a month's collections, specal efforts excepted' The Murchison monthly collection's had alwavc been substantial.' and the fact that the last n\onth s total was a record showed that interest in the god work'of the Red Cross was not waninir. but deepning." Gratification was expressed at the satisfactory manner in which the work was beinfit carried on tlirouchout the district, and the metina closed.