RED CROSS AFTERNOON.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 563, 29 November 1915, Page 4

RED CROSS AFTERNOON.

CASHMERE HILLS BBANCH. On Saturday afternoon a very interesting display of work was held in connection with the Cashmere Hills branch of the Red Cross. The display was held in the Cashmere Schoolroom, and was largely attended, the amount of work shown as the aggregated effort of one month being a revelation to many. In one room was shown the work turned out by the branch since November I—not quite a month previous. The quantity and quality, alike, called for the greatest admiration, even from those who knew that the Red Cross workers on the hills were enterprising, and energetic to a; degree. In pyjamas alone, there were 67 pairs; in warm dressing-gowns, beautifully made and lined, 64; bed-jackets, 86; waistcoats, 20; balaclavas, bed-socks, and such items, 416; body-belts, 41; and so om Since April, when they commenced work they have sent away no fewer than 425 pairs of socks alone, all beautifully hand-knitted. The bandage department has a record of 1060 swabs, 954 roller bandages, 100 manitails, 81 binders, 181 triangulars, 1020' operation cloths, 8 boxes medicine cloths, 983 diet cloths, 119 wringers, 127 bottle covers, 685 fomentation . packs, 358 toilet squares, and sundries, such as dusters, bottle covers, etc.

An especially interesting feature of the afternoon was a demonstration of bandage work. A number of ladies and several school girls were busily occupied malting and rolling bandages, making swabs, and so on, thus giving the uninitiated a peep behind the scenes into the work with which so many women are occupied at the present. Everything was done with great care, method, and precision, and, watching their quick, deft movements, one did not require to be told that the Cashmere Hills bandage work has acquired quite a reputation of its own. When the boxes are sent down to the Central Depot they are not even unpacked. The ladies in charge there know that the bandages they contain are sure to be quite right. \

During the afternoon a well-selected musical programme was given, under the direction of Mrs Carey, and a dainty tea, provided by the ladies of the branch, was served. The workers received many congratulations, before dispersal, on the very excellent showing they made.