CHINA'S NEEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 220, 16 September 1940, Page 3

CHINA'S NEEDY.

CO-OPERATIVE SCHEME. CHRISTCHURCH MAN'S AID. Taking a leading part in the organisation and direction of the great industrial co-operative movement in Western China, which has been formed among Chinese who migrated to the west as a result of Japanese aggression is Mr. Kewi Alley, formerly of Chrietchurch. Several tributes to Mr. Alley's work for the movement, which now provides employment and goods for hundreds of thousands in this formerly undeveloped area, have been paid in recently published books and other publications in China. Most notable of these u= Freda Utley's "China at War." Mr. Alley served in the Great War, and later took up ehee.p farming for a time in New Zealand. He went to China 17 yeare ago, and in 1938 gave up a highly-paid post on the Shanghai Municipal Council to help launch the cooperative movement. He now lives among the people he is helping as one of themselves, and ie thus able to appreciate their outlook and help them with their problems. Mr. Rewi Alley is a brother of Mr. G. T. Alley, former All Black, and now officer in charge of the New Zealand country library service.