CORSO WORKERS FOR GREECE
_ SYDNEY, Dec. 31. Twenty-seven members of four units of the Council of Organisations for Relief Services Overseas, who are bound, for Greece and have arrived in Sydney, .were welcomed by Mr Frank S. Gaines, a director of the south-west Pacific areax office of UNRRA, who wished them good luck in the “toughest job” they had ever tackled. Paying a tribute to the courage of New Zealanders, Mr Gajnes said that 27 years ago he had spent several months m the Dominion and got to know the qualities of the inhabitants, who recentlv opened S i Manila office, said UNRRA planned to send water buffaloes from Australia’s Northern Territory to the Philippines to help to restore agriculture. A New Zealander who migrated to the Northern Territory to become a buffalo hunter had volunteered to lead the expedition to capture buffaloes for the Philippines.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24763, 2 January 1946, Page 5
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