RELIEF FOR CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 22954, 11 May 1938, Page 13

RELIEF FOR CHINA

£8,400 COLLECTED TWO MORE DOCTORS WANTED CPeb United Press Association.J WELLINGTON, May 10. 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 to-day in a cablegram signed by Dr R. Gray and sent to the council from Hankow. It read: “ Send two doctors; urgent.” , The secretary of the Far East Relief Fund Committee (Mr C. Meachen) said to-night that applications for volunteers from the medical profession who were willing to go to China were to be called immediately. The sum of £B4OO was collected as a result of the recent appeal by the Far East Relief Fund Committee, and of this, £2OOO has already’ been sent to Dr Maxwell at the International Red Cross Society’s headquarters at Hankow. Dr R. Gray, of Auckland, and Dr H. Tremewan, of Lower Hutt, were also sent fully equipped to China,

and are at present stationed in the Honan Province, the former at Loyang and the latter at Chengchow. .Their main work is with the civilian population. . , . , The committee has sufficient funds in hand to send two more fullyequipped doctors to China, and proposes to devote the remainder of the funds to bringing the four doctors back to New Zealand when the work is completed, possibly at the end of me year. _____________