FLOWER MISSION AND RELIEF WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 26, Issue 310, 18 April 1921, Page 12

FLOWER MISSION AND RELIEF WORK.

Ashburton sends flowers and tracts regularly to public and private hospitals. maternity homes. Soldiers' Club, and Women's Rest Room, and Old Men’s Home. Winehmore-Greenstreet and Tinwald send flowers and gifts to sick members, and put flowers in local churches. Oxford visits the sick, and five of its members are on Igidlea’ Hospital Com * mittee. They visit nurses and patients, and send supplies of flowers, eggs, old linen, etc. Held an afternoon tea for Fight the Famine Fund. Invercargill visits Hospital, and takes gifts. Palmerston North has Relief Rooms, where second-hand clothing Is collected and distributed. Willard Home Committees meet in thess rooms, and work stall for Bazaar was prepared there. More helpers are needed to carry it on. The local Hospital is visited, and cakes, scones, fruit, etc., given to the patients; chocolates, eggs, and flowers are given to the children. Literature is distributed. and collections taken up for patients in the annexe. Kaiapoi visits the sick, and Kaiapoi and Dunedin write letters of sympathy. Waipawn visits sick, both in and out of Hospital. Nelson sent five large cases of over 11 to garments to Save the Children Fund; also collected over £2OO for same fund. Christchurch also did good work for Fight the Famine Fund by sending money, and by requesting Mayor to call

a public meeting, and assisting on Coni mittee set up by that meeting. Christchurch visits Jubilee Home monthly, and helps to entertain inmates, and occasionally a tea, and sometimes a concert. Peilding visits sick, and ministers to them; formed a Dorcas Committee, which looked after children when mothers were ill, and provided clothing. Wellington District, during Christmas week, visited factories, laundries, and Homes, and distributed flowers, tracts, and literature to over 300 persons, young and old.