Lao speakers in demand
Mpre than IQD refugee.? from J-aps Will spve :m New. Zealand, gpriy .next month, and n .search is bpmg made ,tg find people who speak their language. The refugees who have spent the last four years at camps in Thailand, are being brought to this country by the Inter Church Commis? sion': f°f Immigration and Resettlement of Refugees. Th§- area- officer for the I.C.C.L ih Christchurch, (Mrs R. Cody),said yesterday .that unless Laa-speaking people can be found In thjs area to
gsjsist the refugees then it was most Unlikely any of them would be able to come to Christchurch. < “We are conducting a frantic search to?see if we can find someone; here who can help with thi. language. Without this assistance it wi|l be very difficult to .help them settle into, hdw bpm? munity,” Mrs Cody said. Mrs Cody said that if anyone in Christchurch could nsgist jn providing help with the Loatian language they eoujd telephone h er 4t 604J7 PF 52fMfl(5. '.'•••
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