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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16434, 24 May 1921, Page 7

■ j | At yesterday's meeting or the ChristI church Tramway Board a letter was received from a resident of South • Brighton asking if the board would | run a motor-bus service from the New i Brighton tram terminus to South ! Brighton. The resident stated that | she lived two miles from the nearest j tram and that she would he prepared i to pay 6d per mile to travel by a ’busjMr Walter moved that the matter ! should be referred to the Works and | Traffic Committee to see what could i be done nexi summer. As the last | census showed, the population of South I Brighton was increasing rapidly and I he thought the board should give a ? bus \ service ». trial during the summer j months. It would pay if nji were agree- ! able to a charge of Od per mile. Ur Walter’s motion was carried, i The following members of the ' Executive Committer* of the Doj minion Roy Scouts’ Association will go north this evening by the ferry ; steamer to attend the meeting of the 1 association council in the Town Hall, Wellington, to-morrow and on Thursday: Brigadier-General A. W. Ani drew (chairman of the Executive OomI mittee), Captain I>. O. W. C'ossarove l (Dominion Chief Commissioner), Colonel F. B. Gres Wei I, Rev IV H. Orbell and Messrs 11. H. Smith and H. S. J. Goodman. Mr 1/. M. Isitt, M.P., (a councillor) and tho Rev Phillip Carrington (Commissioner of the Province of Central Canterbury) will also attend the meeting, it is anticipated^that the majority of the thirty Provincial Commissioners in New Zealand will present. The Governor-General, Lord Jellicoe. lias intimated his intention of attending, and will preside. A medal for presentation to Red Cross war workers who have received Jno other British decoration lias been struck by tho British Red Cross Society. Among those entitled to it arc ’ all members of the ■society or its voiun--1 tary aid detachments who, during tho j war, gave a minimum unpaid service j at homo or abroad of not less than i 1000 hours. No minimum period of service has boen laid down to quality for the medal for those who have performed air raid duty entailing great por•SoiKil danger, nominations of persons to receive the medal for such being left to the discretion of county presidents. The medal i* in gilt, with a white ribbed silk ribbon. and is the only one ever issued by tiho British lied Cross -Society. Our the obverse is the Red Cross symbol with the words: “ FoT war service 1914-T&18 .** Thp reverse bears the Red Gross motto : “ Inter fcrma caritas.” Tho Canterbury Provincial Executive of the New Zealand branch of tho society received notification concerning the modal yesterday. Tho long delay in issuing it was commented upon. It decided to draw the n f tent ion of tho New Zealand Central Executive to the issue of tho modal, and the need for a uniform scheme f6v ' Its distribution in the Dominion.