CHINESE RELIEF
Huge Sum Required
(N.Z.P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 4. On a visit to New Zealand for Chinese relief, Dr. A. C. Hou, Chinese liaison officer to the South-Western Pacific area office of Unrra, arrived in Auckland from Sydney. Df. Hou sajd the Chinese relief programme calls for an expenditure by Unrra of £300,000,000, which represents 4,000,000 tons of materials. China’s own relief programme calls for twice that amount of expenditure. “This can give only the most superficial reljef,” said Dr. Hou. “It amounts to only about 15/- a head of the population.” Dr. Hou said China’s first problem was rehabilitation. One of the main problems was the restoration of communications, and in respect of this aid was being sought. - China’s railways had to be rebuilt in many instances, and locomotives and other rolling stock had to be restored. Many of the river systems had been dislocated during the war, and many roads throughout the country had to be reconstructed. “The base of China's economic system was rural selfsufficiency,” said Dr. Hou. “This has been lost, but the people will come back to it. The aim of the Chinese Government is to give people the initial help they require in order to regain their self-sufficiency.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23375, 5 December 1945, Page 4
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