NEW SOUTH WALES SCHEME.
£200,000 TO BE RAISED.
Sydney, May 28.
An influential committee has been appointed to carry out the Red Cross scheme to meet the needs r of the sick and wounded. Mr. -Ward is organising a public appeal, by which he aims at raising £200,000. Mr. W. A. Holraan,' State Premier, referring to the announcement, said an endeavour would be made to raise Red Cross funds. Australia could not afford to let it be said that she was not prepared to buy comforts for her own soldiers. The charity of her own people was unlimited. The Government had already undertaken to inaugurate a combined movement throughout Australia for the sick and wounded. He was negotiating with the Premiers of other States on the matter.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 8
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