APPEAL FOR DOCTORS FOR CHINA
Applications To Be Called An urgent appeal for two more doctors to be sent to China from New Zealand was received by the joint council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society yesterday in a cablegram signed by Dr. R. Gray from Hankow. The secretary of the Far East Relief Fund Committee, Air. C. Aleaehen, said last night that applications for volunteers from the medical profession willing to go to China were to be called immediately. Tlie sum of £B4OO was collected as a result of the recent appeal by tlie Far East Relief Fund Committee, and of this £2OOO has already been sent to Dr. Alaxwell at the International Red Cross Society’s headquarters ar. Hankow. Dr. R. Gray, /Auckland, and Dr. H. Tremewan, Lower Hutt, were also sent fully equipped to China. They are stationed in tlie Honan province, Dr. Gray at Loyang and Dr. Tremewan at Chengchow. Their main work is with the civilian population. Tlie ’committee has sufficient funds in hand to send two more fullyequipped doctors to China, and proposes to devote the remainder of tlie funds to bringing the four doctors brick to New Zealand when their work is completed, possibly at tile end of the
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 191, 11 May 1938, Page 6
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