HONG KONG REFUGEES
“Bad Living Conditions”
Many of Hong Kong's refugees were housed in conditions worse than those provided for the pigs, said Dr. C D. Ellyett, reader in physics at the University of Canterbury, yesterday. Dr. Ellyett returned to Christchurch on Saturday from the United States, where he had been invited to read seven papers to a symposium on meteors at Boston. He visited Hong Kong on the way home, and said he was given the opportunity for an intensive look at the refugee problem and the methods being employed to cope with it.
"The housing, if it can be caked that, is still apalling.” he _ said, "and in many cases it is worse than the housing provided for the nigs. “Experts on this refugee work stressed to me that very much had been done already for more than one million refugees, but that there were many ways in which help could be given. ‘They particularly stressed that small quantities of fullcream milk-powder would be of great assistance in helping the recovery of serious medical cases—particularly those with tuberculosis. “They told me that if it was at all possible to send a small continuing supply of milk-powder it would be most welcome,” said Dr. Ellyett
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29621, 18 September 1961, Page 13
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