More Volunteers To Join V.S.A.

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30953, 8 January 1966, Page 1

More Volunteers To Join V.S.A.

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 7. Ten more volunteers, eight of them graduates, are going overseas this month under Volunteer Service Abroad.

Mr Keith Armstrong of Te Aroha. a farmer, is joining the rotary-sponsored team to work on community development in North-east Thailand Miss Barbara Cameron, of Eastbourne, lately on the staff of the Bohally intermediate ' School, Blenheim, has been posted to St. Mary’s Girls' • School, Labasa, Fiji, and 1 Misses Julia Harvie, M.A., of ■ Wellington and Merrill Ausi tin, B.Sc., of Palmerston ■ North, will go to the Adi CakoI bau Girls’ School, near Suva. Misses Beryl Whitehead, B.Sc., of Feilding, and Glenys Edgar B.Sc., of Temuka, will go to the Leulumoegafou High School in Western Samoa, and Mr Anthony Johnson, 8.A., of Christchurch, tn the Salafai

High School, w’here VS A. volunteers have taught since 1963.

Miss Judith Russell, B.Sc. of Dunedin, and Mr Russell Davis, 8.A., of Nelson, are to teach at State schools in Sarawak, Malaysia. Miss Jennifer Maffey, M.A., of Auckland, will join the staff of St. Margaret’s School. Seria, Brunei. By the end of this month. Volunteer Service Aboard will have 55 volunteers in the field. The chairman (Mr O'Brien) said the organisation’s most urgent needs were fanning volunteers with experience of cropping or irrigation, and health inspectors to work in Thailand and Saban respectively.