Not Sponsoring Tibetan Nurse
Delegates to the annual conference of the Save the Children Fund on Saturday decided not to sponsor a Tibetan girl for training in New Zealand as a nurse.
They felt that the girl’s educational qualifications and grasp of the English language would not be sufficient. An inquiry had been received from Miss M. L. Whitten secretary of the Commonwealth and foreign department of the fund.
Miss Whitter asked the New Zealand branch of the fund to accept the financial responsibility for giving the girl an extra year’s education to bring her up to the standard required in a New Zealand hospital. Mrs M. Dean, a delegate from North Canterbury, said that she also had received a letter from Miss Whitter. It had referred to isolated cases where hand-made blankets and hand-knitted squares sent to Asian countries had been unpicked to make clothing.
Mrs Dean said it was better to send squares alone and not to incorporate them in blankets so that people could make
them into clothing or blankets as they wished. All workers overseas were anxious to get trousers and wool, she said.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31020, 28 March 1966, Page 2
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