THE WAR AND RED CROSS WORK

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13148, 1 September 1914, Page 3

THE WAR AND RED CROSS WORK

\ With, war. peiiding; it is -iu'terestijig,to know. what women have done 'in other countries' i n -Red ;,Orbss ■ work/- Wli ieh ■ so far is only ; in contemplation 'here, ;.: Scotland, thanks Ho ; t)io Duchess of Montrose,' is-; ahead/of • England -in,' its Ms { Cross'organisation, ; TJie : Bii<sess; is president; of'the; Scottish-','branch; in :additioibto - her•owftßOUßtty.'-o'f Stirling, iand- some years;;ago,-she'affiliated ; the St, • Andrew ? s \ Ambulance •Associatiiiri.' There, is nothing about Cross : wqrk, thaj;she-; doe's wt know, or can-not- do.' Not;'a>corner of-.'Scotland where- there is-; gathorml anything of a papulation butisheihas planted..a'imsy. branch; '■<.. ••Another lady;.'of rank who, lias done pcji-is the Counters bf..Eg]inton and, Wjjltp|.' ■ • SJje;liis', organised ; into; w fewer thou:. n i no' conipl et o ti is - - '. ._' •.'-■-Th.e -Duchess o.f. Norfolk, hasi done much for .the organisation in Lngland. Sussex, of flinch branch slip is presi-; tfent, lias been parcelled out "into divisions, sq that both inland and on the coast no district is neglected, . V VLadj Londonderry has made the county of a, serious, rival for efficienej to Sussex, These are but a few ladies, of rank who have worked'hard ij) the cause j not forget-] ting Lady Jlelfln'lfunro Porguson, who, was ( ! for < some years president of-.her owa county >of Fife in J Scotland, -V