CHINESE RELIEF

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24742, 6 December 1945, Page 6

CHINESE RELIEF

BIG SUM NEEDED

VISIT BY OFFICER OF UNRRA (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 5. On a"visit to New Zealand to study the availability of supplies for Chinese relief,. Dr. A. C. Hou, Chinese haison officer to the South-western Pacific Area of the office of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, arrived in Auckland from Sydney. Dr. Hou said the Chinese relief profSSSS 1 ? c ? Us for an expenditure by UNRRA of £300,000,000, which represents 4,000 000 tons of materials ChK own relief programme calls for twice thatamount of expenditure *»ife& s - la-51 a -5?i ve '°, n ny l y most superficial S f U sa i d ,l )r - ? ou - " n amounts to only about 15s a head of the popula-

„ Dr ?°H-,?? id China's first problem was rehabilitation. One of the main problems was the restoration of mmmunications and, for this, aid was VSL2S3BS ae 'Zg'iSrz *JJZ£? base of China's economic & Hou W "Th£ a l Sufficiency,- ££ i^J? 0 • -„ Thls has bee n lost, but the Pfopje will come back to it. The aim SLn£ ?£ m ?% Government is to gi£ E^H e * the mi - tial hel P tb ey require in order to regain their self-sufficiency "