RED CROSS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1161, 31 October 1917, Page 2

RED CROSS.

SALES DEPOT, CATHEDRAL SQUARE. During the past week gifts in kind have been received at the depot from the following:—Mesdaraes T. E. Taylor, Meares, Ashworth, C. Turner, W. Ballantync, A. Boyle, Coe, E. L. Knight, Rowland, Masters, \V. Hall, T. Green, A. Macfarlane, Malyon, Walker, Wait, Wallace, Wilding, Manson, Gresson, E. E. Daniels, Poulton, Quaine, Douglas, Bethell, N. Ellis. Misses M. Neave, Pannett, Packer, Banks, Duffy, Berkley, Strange, Storry, Sorcnsen. Messrs T. G. Burch, E. Herring, A. E. G. Rhodes, Izard, Burnham Industrial School, Master Philip Cross, employees Farmers' CotOP-, H. E. Button, Beath's, Sims, "Chinese Class.*' Cash donations: Geo. Lewis, sale of Pomeranian dog £2O, cash 2/6. The week-end sale of home-made food supplies was in charge of Mrs Gould, Mrs Dalgety and Mrs T. Gibson, and resulted in the sum of £36 being added to the Red Cross Sick and Wounded Fund. In the competition for a ham the winning number was 1943. FROM THE CENTRAL DEPOT. Some useful donations have been received during the last ten days. One dona- | tion of £9, the proceeds of a concert given iby the Burgesses' Association at Hillsi borough, Opawa, was put into the Cardigan j Fund, and another, of £22, from the Cashi mere Hills Branch, was divided equally bej tween' the Cardigan and Blanket Funds. Mrs : Stevenson gave £4 for cardigans, and a donaI tion from Chcrtscy went into the same I fund. The Chertsey Branch raised over £4OO by means of various. entertainments, £IOO of which was given to the "Our Day" Fund and a further donation of £3O halved between the Cardigan and Hospital Comforts Funds. Another good donation for "Our Day" came from LyHelton—over £l32—and from the Springfield, Russell's Flat, and Kowai I Bush Branch came the last instalment of ail "Our Day" donation of £3O 9/-, equally good ! considering the small population of the dis- ■ trict. I On two different occasions Mrs Gunnell brought in donations of money collected at the Band of Hope Competitions held recently. For the men in the Cashmere Hills Sanatorium and Coronation Hospital fresh fruit is collected every week by Mrs Alfred Brown. Every week Mrs E. J. Ross gives some delicacies for one or other of the local | hospitals. A much-appreciated gift of I half a dozen squares of honey and some cauliflowers was brought in by Mrs Allan Hopkins, and some of t!*e branches supplied a variety of comforts—Halswcll jam and pickles, Amberley cakes, jam and chutney, while Glcnroy sent some fresh butter with a gift of jam and books. At the receiving table the writer noticed a good parcel of socks, 85 pairs iu all, from the Killinchy Branch. New Brighton, St. Albans, and Sydenham are all gradually in- | creasing the supplies of garments sent in, I and the work is in all three cases excellent. [ Rangiora sent in this month 233 garments, ■ all well made, and a very large supply of j sundries and surgical requisites. The raffling of the contents of a kitchen !at Strange's Corner proceeds briskly, and I all country visitors should seize this oppor-. tunity of supporting the funds and incidentally. securing a chance of refurnishing the kitchen at the cost of one shilling.