RED CROSS SOCIETY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13855, 11 June 1919, Page 4

RED CROSS SOCIETY.

WAIRARAPA SUB-CENTRE

A meeting of the Wairarapa sub-cen-tre of the \,.\v Zealand branch of the British Red Cross Society ami Countess of Liverpool Fund was held yesterday in the A. and P. rooms, Perry street, Musierton. There were present:—Mesdames J. M. Coradine (president), J. Caselberg, J. Macßae, W. J. Martin, G. Pain, Guy Williams, Q. Donald, L. Moore, Hugh Morrison, G. li. Sykes, Misses Yallanco, Card and the hon. secretary (.Miss J. Mackenzie i. Apologies for absence were received from Mesdames N. Miller, J. Archer, W. A. Tate, A. B. Balfour, 11. 11. Beetham, A. Hosking, E. IT. Collier and H. T. Wood. Correspondence was read and received. In answer to a communication from the Minister of Internal Affairs re the disposal of funds, it was decided to close the Red Cross account and forward the balance as requested to the Wellington Centre, aud ask that authority be obtained to hand over the balance in hand of the Countess of Liverpool and Christmas Gift Funds to the Wairarapa Patriotic Association. The Featherston .Military Hospital Coinmitf.ee reported having provided motor drives and supplies of fruit, cake, poultry, wine, oranges, honey, etc., there being over two hundred patients in. hospital at present. The hon. treasurer presented an audited balance-sheet of the Red Cross and Countess of Liverpool Funds, the same having already appeared in the local press. A letter from the hon. secretary, Wellington Centre, was received, approving of the patterns of stump socks forwarded to the Centre. Arrangements have been made to supply fifty of these articles per month. An appreciative letter was read from Commissioner Adelaide Cox, head of the women's work of the Salvation Army, London, gratefully acknowledging receipt of cases of clothing which" had been sent for the poor of Great Britain. Accounts were passed for payment and routine business transacted.