EX-SOLDIER PATIENTS
RED CROSS SOCIETY OUTING PROMOTION OF PICNICS. Each year the Red Cross Society, which attends to the supply of recreational amusement and comforts of the ex-service patients, of whom there are 75 under treatment at the Porirua Mental Hospital, endeavours to promote a number of picnic outings. This year, the first of these outings has been arranged for. and will be carried out on Friday next, 14th inst. These functions, which are proclaimed by the medical superintendent and his staff as of great benefit to the participants, are largely contingent upon firms and private owners placing cars at the disposal of the society on the day appointed for the outing. Last year, six picnics were promoted and carried out, there being close on 200 patients who enjoyed them. On each occasion a party of 25 to 30 is taken.
Spots visited are such places as Titabi Bay, Plimmerton, Moonshine Valley, Pnekakariki, Paraparaumu. In the past, firms and private owners have co-operated in this important work in a most generous way, ,anri the society hopes that such support will he renewed for the current year. Cars leave Red Cross headquarters, 63, Dixon street, at 9.30 a.m. on the day appointed for the picnic, and usually arrive back in town about 5 p.m. The outings are held fortnightly on Fridays, and the senretarv of the Red Cross would be glad to hear from any individual who would be good enough to place a oar and service at tho society’s disposal for the purpose of providing an outing for some of the patients at the mental hospital. Gifts of fruit, caltc. etc., will be welcome, also books, mngazines. periodicals. etc., for distribution among patients.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12651, 11 January 1927, Page 8
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283EX-SOLDIER PATIENTS New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12651, 11 January 1927, Page 8
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