WOMEN'S NATIONAL RESERVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16904, 17 July 1918, Page 10

WOMEN'S NATIONAL RESERVE.

At this critical stage of tie world's war, -'perhaps now more than at any other \ period, the combined forces of manhood $ and womanhood throughout the Empire are .* essential to a victorious ending of German arrogance and despotism. The men have done and are still nobly doing their duty. Far be it from, true that the; '.women are not doing theirs. Each factory, munition works and hospital beare testimony to their unselfish devotion. Our whole nation is straining to its colossal task, and the time has arrived when every woman and girl in New Zealand must be prepared to help her country in 'any emergency. While our men are giving their lives, it behoves us to make an! effort at home and to question ourselves as to whether we are making full and sufficient sacrifice. Other than those who have lost dear ones, have we really made any personal sacrifice? Are wo prepared to make it! The Women's National Reserve feel that the women of New Zealand will not fail any more than have their sisters of other countries, and are, therefore, organising a war emergency division, with confidence that every loyal and patriotic girl will come forward and enrol In this undertaking we want help. We want co-operation, suggestions, advice. Everyone cannot help in the same way. All have not the same talents, the same leisure or the same means, but there is not a woman, rich or poor, or employee, who cannot give some service. Every hour is valuable, and be it only one hour a week or even a month, appeal for it. Without banding together and keeping organised, we can do nothing; together we can render valuable service to our conn.' try. A meeting will take place on Wednesday, July 17, at 8 p.m., in Rutland Street, when Miss B. Butler Miss E. Griffin, Dr. Florence Keller, and others will speak. The one object of the reserve is to stand together, as a loyal body of British women, ready to meet any emergency or undertake any service that will help to successfully end this fearful struggle for liberty and justice that is demanding such sacrifice in the heavy toll of our manhood. The call is sounding for every woman just as loudly as for every man. Let us not be deaf to it.