POST-WAR POLICY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 73, Issue 6282, 16 September 1946, Page 4

POST-WAR POLICY

DISCUSSION BY RED CROSS SOCIETY Formulation of a post-war policy was the subject of a long discussion last week at the council of the New Zealand Red Cross Society. One of the most important tasks of the coming year, it was agreed by delegates, was the placing of the society on a sound financial footing and establishment of a reserve of funds which would be available when necessary for the work of the International Red Cross organisations. An exchange of ideas among the various centres was. suggested as a means of extending the field of the society’s work within New Zealand. Schemes mentioned as being open to Red Cross assistance included hospital library services, the Food for Britain campaign, the fostering of adoption of children for European countries, the appointment of district nurses in country areas, the establishment of clinics in cities for the treatment of minor accident cases (thus relieving the pressure on hospital outpatients’ departments), and aid to the Crippled Children Society and the Institute of the Blind. Delegates gave instances of work of these kinds being carried out by the centres of the society in their own districts. “The Red Cross has gone into the background, and our first and most urgent task is to place it on the map again,” said Mrs J. Winstone, of Eastern Bay of Plenty.