STUDY OF SOCIAL WELFARE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27498, 4 November 1954, Page 10

STUDY OF SOCIAL WELFARE

OFFICIALS FROM SIAM AND INDONESIA

Two officials of the Siamese Department of Public Welfare, and one from the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs, arrived in Christchurch this week in the course of a tour of New Zealand to study aspects of social welfare. The Siamese, Messrs P. Nopawongsa and B. Mahaniranonda, hold United Nations fellowships, and the Indonesian, Mr R. A. Romlie, is in New Zealand under the Colombo Plan. Mr Nopawongsa, who is studying' the welfare of the aged, arrived in Auckland by air from Sydney on September 27, and spent the next three weeks in Wellington. He arrived in Christchurch after a week in Auckland, and after two weeks here he will spend a week in Dunedin before returning to Wellington for two days on his way home.

Mr Romlie is the chief of the Division of Social Guidance of the West Java Social Inspection Office. He is studying child welfare work in New Zealand.

He has been in New Zealand for six weeks, and will stay for another four months and a half. He will spend three weeks in Christchurch. He has already spent three weeks in Wellington, two weeks at the boys’ training centre at Levin, and one week at Taumarunui. He will later spend two weeks each in Hamilton and Rotorua before returning to Wellington for the rest of his stay in New Zealand.