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off. Two or three times they came back to town on the rims, the tire having come off and rolled away. Once they were told "No need of going any further - no one there but the dead." Not later than four o'clock the car went out of commission entirely. Miss F had promised a woman to let her know where she had taken her child so she walked back to the "fields beyond the Cotton Factory" to tell her that her little girl was in the Camp Hill Hospital. Some sailors had got a fire going in a house nearby and people were warming themselves, while the sailors passed around cake and bread. Miss F. helped a woman to clear up her house as well as possible. Went looking for a ship, for milk, etc. "Didn't realize that there were no shops any more." Had no idea then what the water-front was like. Thought she was in the worst of it.

Later that evening she took supplies from Technical College to various hospitals. Walked and carried armfuls of bandages, towels etc. Rolled bandages and carried them to V.G.H. For three or four days after the 6th a "huge crowd" worked at the Technical College making dressings. The room in which they worked was in a very bad state; so Mrs. Curry (wife of Dr. M.A.B.Curry) took about fifty workers to her house on the 7th, and they worked there all day.

The RedCross car was repaired and going on Friday. The Red Cross workers worked for weeks on dressings, clothing, sheets, everything needed. Used at least one thousand dollars worth of sheeting. On Saturday ten commercial travellers from St John came in to help. They unpacked and sorted clothing etc, for "some days". The American Red Cross turned over everything.