PRIVATE SOCIETIES AND PUBLIC APPEALS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue 12998, 10 November 1916, Page 2

PRIVATE SOCIETIES AND PUBLIC APPEALS.

To tho Editor. Sir, —I am greatly surprised that Victoria League of New Zealand should ha vo fallen 1 so far from lifcs- high estate fcs "to ask the ,publric to aH-isi it in- providing a motor ambulance. I take it that this r.m.bulaJi-ce is_ to be recorded as 1 a gift from the Victoria League of New Zealand', and' therefore it should be the privilege of its members to find the money out of their own pockets instead of going round, ca.p in hand, to the public. If this wealthy and influential society is unable to find a paltry sum of £BOO from all its members in New Zealand*, then I must say tho Victoria League is not what I thought it was. While on the .sruibjeet, may I .remark that I note your local refers to the locsf branch of the Victoria League Red: Cross Society of New Zealand-. As there is no such Red' Cross Society in" New ZeaJnnd, or anywhere else, so fai as I know, why attempt to create the impression tliat there is? I should 1 imagine that the parent body ot tho Victoria League, lending, as it does, help to all forms of war work, is too well versed an the fitness of things t > arrogate to itself a title that of necessity is rigorously confined to a cleariydefined class of work. If 1 am wrcn.3 in any of my statements, I would be; gladi to bo corrected- by some yerson i 1 authority in tho League.—l am, DIGNITY.