RED CROSS

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 762, 20 July 1916, Page 10

RED CROSS

UPPER RICCARTON. At the meeting of the Upper Riccarton Branch of the Red Cross Society, held on Tuesday, in the Church Schoolroom, Mr A- B. G. Rhodes gave an address on his trip to England, and of his visits to the hospitals where New Zealand troops are being cared for. He also spoke of the active part taken by the women of England in connection with Red Cross work. He asked the members to continue sending woollen and flannel garments, as they were very much needed. Mrs Walter Hill also spoke. She said she had found that the branch sent on an average for the last six months, 100 garments, etc., per week. Musical items were contributed by Mr W. Lunn, and the National Anthem was sung by those present. GENERAL FUND.. The receipt of the following subscriptions to the Red Cross Fund is acknowledged: —For sick and wounded .soldiers at the various hospitals where New Zealanders are lying:—Amount previously

leknowledged, £20,491 3/2; the Butch- 1 ers' 1915 Picnic Committee, per G. W. • Robertson, £8 16/-; Mrs Musgrave, 5/-; Miss M. Pratt, £1; Mrs Boulnois, pro- , ceeds of gift afternoon, £1 1/-; A , Friend, 5/-; Kit Bags, 3/4; Mrs Henry Tipping, 10/3; Coker 's Hotel Box, 8/3; total, £20,503 11/9. The Ladies' Committee acknowledge with grateful thanks receipt of gifts in kind from the following:—Mrs P. H. Candy, Mrs Willie Candy, Lower Riccarton Branch per Mrs Luttrell, Kirwee Branch per Mrs Moffatt, Mrs McAlpine Home and Empire League, Geraldine, Aylosbufy Branch per Mrs Boulnois, Rugby Street Branch, Waipara Branch, Mrs Gardiner, Sydenham Branch per Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bloxani, City Branch, Little Akaloa Sewing Guild per Mrs Hunter, Duvauehelles Bay per Mrs barker, Akaroa Branch, Hororata Branch, Horsley Downs, Waimate SubCentre per Miss Alice M. Jones, from Westport, Greenpark Branch, Addington Branch, Miss Bourn's Sewing Party, Shirley-Burwood Branch, Richmond Branch per Mrs Petrie, Tennis Players, M- E. U., Leithfield Branch per Mrs G. Hotchkin, "The Brownies," Mrs Dougall, Cashmere Hills Branch, Mrs Warren, Mrs Gardiner, Mrs Brown, Combined Clubs, Mrs Tipping, Kimberley Men's Bandage Brigade, Miss Oilman, Weedons, The International Order Good Templars per Mrs Gunnell, Opawa Men's Brigade, Opawa Red Cross Branch per Mrs Ferrier. For hosiptal comforts and for sick on transports: —Mrs Boulnois (proceeds of gift afternoon), Messrs Frank A. Cook, Mrs F. E. Hope, and . the Waimate Branch.