DOCTORS WANTED
FAR EAST RELIEF
The Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society received a- cable yesterday containing an urgent appeal for two more doctors to be sent to China, from Dr. R. Gray, stationed at Hankow. The secretary of the Far East Relief Fund Committee, Mr. C. Meachen, 'said last night that applications for volunteers from the medical profession willing to go to China wereTO be called immediately. ' The sum of £8400 was collected as a result of the recent appeal by the Far East Relief Fund Committee, and of this £2000 has already been sent to Dr. Maxwell at the International Red Cross Society's headquarters at Hankow. Dr. R. Gray, Auckland, and Dr. H. Tremewan, Lower Hutt, were also sent fully equipped to China. They are stationed in the Honan province. Dr. Gray at Loyang and Dr., Tremewan at Chengchow. Their main work is with the civilian population. The committee has sufficient funds in hand to send two more fullydoctors to China, and proposes to devote the remainder of the funds to bringing the four doctors back to New Zealand when their work is completed, possibly at the end of the year.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1938, Page 12
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202DOCTORS WANTED Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 109, 11 May 1938, Page 12
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