RED CROSS SOCIETY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20539, 14 February 1935, Page 7

RED CROSS SOCIETY.

A meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Red Cross Society (Ine.) was held on Tuesday. There were present: Air C. J. Ronaldson (chairman), Bady Wigram, Mesdames H. H. Smith and J. Stevenson, Messrs C. J. R. Williams, H. B. Bowker, C. Buchanan and A. L. Pratt. Apologies were received from Sir Hugii Acland and Messrs J. W. Baty and J. G. Li. Vernon. It was reported that arrangements for the appeal were well in hand. War Fund matters were dealt with, the financial statements and reports showing that during the months of December and January ex-service patients had received attention at the Middle Sanatorium and at the Coronation Hospital, Cashmere Hills; at Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs; at Ashburton Hospital and Old Men’s Home; at Timaru Hospital; at Westland Mental Hospital; at Waimate Hospital; at the Rannerdale Home; at the Mental Hospital, Christchurch; at the Christchurch Hospital and as outpatients. Clothing, tobacco, hospital requisites, extra food, motor transport, grants to various matrons for miscellaneous purchases, furnishings, cards, newspapers, books and magazines were supplied and other amusements arranged for. Adjutant Pratt’s report showed that he had visited ex-service men in the Sunnyside Mental Hospital weekly and that cigarettes, tobacco and fruit had been distributed. He stated that one inmate had died and that 94 men had been visited in December and 95 men in January.