RED CROSS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 764, 22 July 1916, Page 7

RED CROSS.

GENERAL FUND. The Order of, St. John.ant) the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society begs to acknowledge the following subscriptions for sick and wounded soldiers at the various hospitals where New Zealanders are lying:—Previously acknowledged, £20,50,! 11/9; collected by Masters Treadweiv' Shanks, and Weir, 3/9*, Miss O. Tirtping 2/6; total, £20,503 18/0?., The J .dies' .Committee acknowledge, with grateful thanks, receipt of gifts in kind from -the following:—Mrs Hadfield, Mrs Newman, Trinity Church Branch (per Mrs Owen), City Branch, Wliarenui School, Woolstou Branch (per Mr.; Thompson), Waikari Branch (per Mrs Douglas), Yaldhurst Branch (per Mrs Wilkinson), Horsley Downs (per Mrs C. Rutherford), C.D.C. (Fendalton Unit), Mrs C. S. Young, Opawa Branch (per Mrs Tate), Redeliffs Branch (per Mrs Beaven), Irwell Branch, Gebbie's Valley and Motukarara (per Mrs Campbell Gebbie), Westport Nursing Division and St. John's Church Guild, Westport School Children, Mrs W. B. Clarkson, sen., and Mrs Dick Ballantyne, Murray Place Red Cross (per Mrs Le Cren and Mrs Hartley Smith), St Albans Bed Cross, Cricketers' Bandage Team, Teachers' Bandage Team, Beath 's Patriotic Bandage Club (per Mr Vaughan), Mrs C. Bailey, Fernside Branch, St. Albans Branch (per Mrs Jones), Woodend-Waikuku Branch (per Mrs Little), Mrs Starky, Eyreton Red Cross (per Mrs Bennett), Hanmer Plains School, Mrs Helmore, St. Luke's Bandage Club, Burwood Bandage and Swab Guild (per Mr Bussell and Mrs Tobin), Mrs Mackenzie Gibson, Girls' Brigade, and Mrs Livesev.

HARES FOR THE WOUNDED. The scheme organised by Mr I). Rutherford for sending hares to the Red Cross hospitals, whieh are dealing with our wounded boys in England, has been most successful this season, owing to the keenness displayed by the different districts. At the present time there are in the various freezing works 10,521 hares and 592 rabbits, as follow:—Pukeuri, b74 hares; Fairfield, 196,'S hares; Islington, 1542 hares, 132 rabbits; Belfast, 1842 hares, 320 rabbits; Pareora, 1927 hares, (5 rabbits; Smithfield, 2921 hares, 134 rabbits. Two hundred and fifty-two crates have already been shipped to England.

CHRISTCHURCH GOODS. The following letter of acknowledgment was received this week from the New Zealand War Contingent Association in London by the Red Cross Society: —■ "The cases that we have opened are excellent in every wav, and I cannot just now. It is getting increasingly difficult to get woven things. One has to order them weeks beforehand, and .just lately we have got rather low in vests and skirts, so that your cases have been a real Cod-send. I think I did explain to you before that we as a subcominittee (the visiting committee) of the War Contingent Association, are dealing with men in hospital all over England, and wo are now doing what we can to look after these men from France. I wanted to let your workers know how very grateful we are for the goods you sent."