WELL DESERVED RECOGNITION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7565, 8 May 1919, Page 4

WELL DESERVED RECOGNITION.

No history of the Great "War will lie complete which fails to properly recognise the splendid part piay«*l in it by the women of our Empire. Wherever women could be of service, there they were found in numbers adequate to the task. With the ambulance behind the firing lines, in tho hospitals, thronging the great munition factories,of the Old Land, in all kinds of hitherto undreamed of occupations, and, no less nobly. iin their homes and guilds; thby demonstrated throughout the long artd anxious years their devotion to the men who for them, and for us, were facing tb« perils of the battlefield and the sea. Yesterday a large and representative company of citizens assembled to pay a tribute to one of the ablest and most zealous of our own women war work* ers. The compliment was well deserved. Assisted by a loyal and enthusiastic guild of self-sacrificing workers, Mm E. H. Suisted gave a lead and direction to the patriotic efforts of the mem- , bers and helpers of the Wauganui SufoCentre of tiie JBnwsh lied Cross Society, with results which will ever stand to their mutual credit. Day after day;' and frequently night after night, as well, she spent herself for "the boys," deeming no hours too long, no work too arduous, so long as it was possible thereby to keep up the steady output or comforts which meant so much to them. Her energy, her zeal, her keen enthusiasm, outlasted the entire war period, and it was not until the war, with all its horrors, had come to an end, that she consented to take the health-recruitl ing vacation of which she was so mucn iii need. The fact that yesterday's graceful acknowledgment of Mrs. Suis-

ted's good work emanated from her own 00-workers, constitutes perha-ps the highest compliment that could be paid to the executive head of an organisation of voluntary workers.