RED CROSS SOCIETY AND WAR HONOURS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 164, 9 July 1918, Page 6

RED CROSS SOCIETY AND WAR HONOURS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln your paper of yesterday appeared a letter from Mr Carrol Harley, questioning the wisdom and loyalty of our Red Cross Committee in deciding not to accept, honours.. For the loyalty of our (.bmmittee I am sure I can vouch", and personally in that matter I give place to no one. As regards the town, its patriotic services were recognised and rewarded when our Mayor was honoured a few months ago, to the satisfaction of all, and any further honour would be personal, not civic. As I' understand it, so many honours, are given to New Zealand lor war work, and each town is asked whether they have anyone to recommend ; so it is not a personal matter between the recipient and the King. Now, as honours are few and workers are many in some places it has caused heart burnings, hence our motion. My ideal in this war has been that noble and never-to-be-forgotten woman, Florence Nightingale. .She refused all honours, and to the last was the personal friend of her Sovereign. Her earthly reward was the knowledge of duty well and faithfully done, and to-day her spirit is animating thousands of English women on all our lighting fronts. The precedent for our motion was set in Ashburton.—l am, etc., F. M. GREEN".