INDONESIAN POST

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31754, 10 August 1968, Page 16

INDONESIAN POST

Physiotherapist From Chch

Miss C. Shepheard, a Christchurch physiotherapist who has been working with the Mission to Lepers’ second surgical team in New Guinea, since May last year, will leave soon to work in Indonesia at a new centre which is being set up by the New Zealand and Australian auxiliaries of the mission.

Before going to Indonesia she will spend three months from the beginning of October in Thailand receiving further training. The Christchurch area sec retary of the mission (Miss M. G. Titheridge) said that

in Indonesia Miss Shepheard would be responsible mainly for the training of national and missionary workers in the techniques of leprosy aid and physiotherapy. Some of the money from the mission’s appeal in Christchurch tomorrow would be used to support this new work, she said. Final plans for the centre could not be made, however, until a surgeon was found. Miss Shepheard, who was educated at the Christchurch Girls’ High School, trained as a physiotherapist in Dunedin. She worked for two years as a physiotherapist in Nelson before going to the Bible Training Institute in Auckland for two years. She was at the Christchurch Hospital for a year before going overseas.

New Club.— A canoeing club was formed at Timaru on Tuesday night under the presidency of Mr P. Jones. The meeting was addressed by the youth activities officer for the Department of Internal Affairs, Christchurch (Mr L. Coughlan),. the sole examiner for the Duke of Edinburgh canoeing award (Mr M. Coulter), and the captain of the Christchurch Arawa Canoeing Club (Mr C. Cook).