RED CROSS ASSISTANCE.
To show how the Christehurch community has risen to the coll for service, it may bo stated that, on Tuesday, tho local branch of tho Red Cross Society' was asked by the Viceroy of India, through his Excellency tho Governor, what portion of six months' supplies and. requisites required for tho maintenance of 500 bods could it supply for. the troops in Mesopotamia. Without hesitation
(says tho Tress), the ladies teegraphed accepting responsibility for one-quarter of the amount of material required. This means 140,000 each of binders and roller bandages, 72.000 triangular bandages, 42,000 manytailed bandages, 250 body belts, and five gross each of beef and mutton essences and what they can of milk foods, at least 2000 tins. The order was taken without any hesitation, and on Friday, at tho depot, awaiting shipment to Bombay, were 26 cases of surgical requisites, such as swabs, splint pads, etc., and over 13,000 roller bandages in 32 cases.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3234, 8 March 1916, Page 53
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159RED CROSS ASSISTANCE. Otago Witness, Issue 3234, 8 March 1916, Page 53
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