WOMEN'S NOBLE AID.
MOTHERS OF SOLDIERS AND
SAILORS.
(Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, last night. TJie women's branch of the National Reserve inaugurated to-day at the Town Hall a movement to enable the mothers of soldiers and sailors engaged m the war to meet for mutual comfort. The hall was decorated -with flags and flowers, and the mothers sat at their ease by tables and chatted over light refreshments. Similar informal meetings will be held on the last Wednesday of each month.
The National Reserve has decided to promote meetings of mothers m then* districts.
The Hon. G. W. Russell said this assembly of «ne mothers- of soldiers and sailors was one of the most beautiful ideas witnessed during the war. He spoke warmly of New Zealand women's work, which he described as magnificent, and declared that the Dominion's splendid achievement m the maintenance of reinforcements would have, been impossible without the women's noble aid.
Dr. Plaits-Mills announced the opinion of the Reserve that the mothers of Now Zealand's defenders should be distinguished by a badge, so that they could recognise one another m the one great cause of national service.
The proposal was heartily applauded by the mothers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14235, 1 March 1917, Page 7
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