HELP BY N.Z.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22511, 15 December 1947, Page 4

HELP BY N.Z.

CHINA AND GREECE SHIPMENT OF SUPPLIES ACTIVITY BY CORSO * “Practically every New Zealander is now linked through some organisation with CORSO," stated the chairman, Mr R. M. Campbell, at the annual meeting of CORSO in Wellington. During the year CORSO received about £28,000 in donations and through public appeals. It retains four relief workers in Greece, out of the 24 sent two years ago, and has sent 20 workers, mainly medical, to China during 1947 to be maintained for two years. Four more will leave shortly. With general increase in living costs their allotment has been raised from lls 6d per day to 13s 6d. CORSO has sent this year 888 cases of relief supplies to Greece and 1,061 cases to China and has a •further 600 cases ready to leave, including 28,000 pairs of shoes to be distributed by the World Council of Churches in Europe. Two thirds of CORSO supplies sent to Greece were distributed through the Greek Red Cross Society. Of those to China a third have gone to Mr Rewi Alley and the village cooperatives, a sixth to needy civilians and hospitals in the Communist area, and the remainder mainly for ‘tiOC wV Kjf distribution through missions. Three quarters of all supplies sent were clothing and footwear and the remainun mainly medical goods, including concentrated foodstuffs. “We could wish, 2} years after the end of the war, that our work was finished,” stated tne vice-chairman, Mr C. S. Falconer, but reports from abroad, unfortunately, indicate that it will be needed for several years yet. To the local committees throughout New Zealand whose efforts make our work possible, .we cannot give enough praise and thanks." y '