Four New Zealanders To Serve With CORSO
WELLINGTON, Mon. (P.A.)—Four New Zealanders who have volunteered for two years’ service in China under CORSO left Auckland this morning by air for Hongkong. Dr J. K. Brown (Gore), until recently on the staff of the Gisborne Hospital, will conduct travelling clinics under the New Zealand Presbyterian Hospital near Canton, through an area that suffered disastrous floods following on six years of Japanese occupation.
Miss Margaret Wallace, former Plunket tutor sister and maternity specialist in Dunedin, and Miss Betty Bagge (Blenheim), a tutor sister at the Wellington Dental Nurses’ Training School, will both take posts at West 4 China Union University, at Chengtu, training Chinese tc staff reoperfing hospitals. Miss Reima Henderson (Timaru) will conduct classes and organise general and maternity work at the rebuilt Soochow Methodist Hospital.
All are serving on the CORSO allowance of 11/6 a day.
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Northern Advocate, 24 November 1947, Page 4
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