| At a cost exceeding £15 millions the Red Cross and St. John has sent over 25 million parcels of food and invalid comforts to British prisoners in Europe since the outbreak of war. The cost of this and other continuing Red Cross services is largely defrayed by the weekly contributions of some 14 million members of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund. |
| Rushden's Red Cross The "penny-a-week" house-to-house collection in May amounted to £109.2s.6d. |
| Windmills - A good effort for a good cause - making and selling toy windmills for the Red Cross - came from David Priestley of Portland Road and Bob Whitworth of Queen Street, both eight years of age. They spent the whole of their Whitsun holiday making the windmills and sold them for a penny each, realising £2. |
| Girls' Effort - Three little girls, two sisters and a friend, presented a tin at our office on Tuesday afternoon containing the sum of £1.5s. which they requested we give to the Red Cross Prisoners-of-War Fund. The three are Irene Cooper (11), June Cooper (8), of St Margarets Avenue and Marie Puddefoot (11) of Rose Avenue. The money was obtained through a competition they ran, with four eggs and other goods as the prize. |
