PLANNING POST-WAR WORK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 21 April 1945, Page 3

PLANNING POST-WAR WORK

LADY NEWALL AT V.A.D. COUNCIL

“Any services which I have been able to render have been very much less than I should like to have done. I can assure you that my interest in everything that goes on in New Zealand will last throughout my life,” said her Excellency Lady Newall, who, as com-mandant-in-chief, N.Z. Red Cross V.A.D.’s, opened the meeting of the Dominion V.A.D. Council in Wellington on Wednesday. Her Excellency said she considered this meeting to be particularly important, as it was chiefly to discuss plans for post-war work and the change over from wartime to peacetime activities. She stressed how really world-wide the Red Cross was and mentioned letters she had just received from Lady Durham in’Australia, Lady Spinks in Egypt and Lady Reading, who had returned to England from a short visit to India. Lady Spinks was head of one of the Red Cross working parties in Egypt. Her Excellency mentioned particularly the wonderful work done by the Red Cross for prisoners of war. Her Excellency said that we in New Zealand had not suffered to the same extent as the rest of the world, and that we had sunshine and many benefits in this beatuiful country. It was therefore our duly to help all those war-weary people who had suffered so much in other parts of the v/orld.