THE TIRELESS RED CROSS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14130, 5 July 1916, Page 2

THE TIRELESS RED CROSS.

In a recent issue of "The Times" appeared the following paragraph:— "In Nelson, one of the snail cities of New Zealand, what is known as a Helping Hand Shop is opened once a week for the s/ale of produce, etc., for the benefit of the .Red Cross. Recently the Nelson branch of the Red Cross was able to send £700 to the parent organisation in London.''

Tho London "Times" Fx:ud, which has been inaugurated on hehalf of tho British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John, had on April 11th (according to an issue of "The Times" of that date) reached the enormous sum of £3,599,993 5s 9d. This fund is being managed by a joint committee of the St. John Ambulance Association and tbo British Red Cross Society, and it has benefited very materially from time to time by the enthusiastic efforts of the various patriotic ieagues of British residents in foreign countries, of which a conspicuous, example was that afforded by. the ■•■ British Patriotic League of Peru, which sent £1500. Quarterly sums-of £250 were being contributed from the London and River Plate Bank, as well as from private . individuals elsewhere, and from the members of the Allied nations at Valparaiso had been sent £150 as proceeds of a fete, instancing how far spread were the efforts to assist _in this great cause of caring for the sick and wounded. ]