Briefing For V.S.A. Team For Asia

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 10

Briefing For V.S.A. Team For Asia

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, January 12

A briefing course begins tomorrow in Wellington for 43 Volunteer Service Abroad volunteers who will leave New Zealand before the end of January.

The V.S.A. said today this was by far the greatest number of volunteers to leave this country at one time. The briefing session, from Thursday to Saturday, will include lectures and a meeting with the Minister of Education 'Mr Kinsella) on Friday morning.

Two of the volunteers are school-leavers going to posts with the Y.W.C.A. in Suva and Bangkok; 31 are schoolleavers going to teaching or agricultural extension posts in Brunei, Sarawak, the British Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Western Samoa and Tonga.

The remainder are adult volunteers, including one young farmer for a land development team in Thailand, and eight teachers for Brunei, Sarawak, Fiji and Western Samoa.

' Last year there were 23 .school-leavers working in five territories, and in 1964, six !in two territories. The volunteers are:—

Thailand.—Phillipa Lousley, of Bayfield High School, Dunedin.

Brunei.—Peta Campbell, of Tawa College, Wellington. Sarawak.— Peter Beilby, of Tawa College, Andrew Buchanan, of Christ’s College, David Clemens, of Christchurch Boys’ High School, Brian Flay, and Brian Jackson, both of Te Awamutu College. Andrew Jamieson, of Christchurch Boys’ High School, John McCartney, of Wairarapa College. Philip j Morrison, of Rongotai College. | Wellington, John Myers, of i Southland Boys' High School. ] Christopher Pattison. of Wanganui Collegiate School, and Andrew Thornley, of Wellington College. , Tonga.— Jennifer Cotton, of St. Mary's College, Wellington, I Rosemary Field, of Sacred

Heart College, Hamilton, Celia Hore, of Sacred Heart College, Hamilton, Michael Maloney, of St. Joseph’s College, Masterton, and John Casey, of St. Bede’s College.

Western Samoa: Seddon Bennington, of Shirley Boys’ High School; Richard Green, of Rongotai College; Sally Mirams. of Kaikorai Valley High School, Dunedin: Judith Paul, of Onslow College, Wellington; William Radford, of Hamilton Boys’ High School; and lan Swan, of Te Awamutu College. | Fiji: Maureen Ferguson, of (Christchurch Girls' High School, and Cynthia Roberts, of St. Margaret’s College.

The New Hebrides: Anthony Brown, of Christchurch Boys’ High School; Murray Cameron, of Scots College, Wellington; Susan Scott, of Linwood High School; Marilyn Wanden, of Freyberg High School, Palmerston North; and Helen Wells, of I Cashmere High School.

The Solomon Islands: ShirI ley Morrison, of Te Awamutu College, and Barbara Williams, of Samuel Marsden ] Collegiate School, WeilingIton. •

Adult volunteers are: Thailand: Mr Keith Armstrong, of Te Aroha. Brunei: Miss Jennifer Maffey, of Auckland. Sarawak: Miss Judy Russell, of Dunedin, and Mr Russell Davis, of Nelson. Western Samoa: Miss Glenys Edgar, of Rangitata: | Miss Beryl Whitehead, of Feilding; and Mr Tony Johnson, of Christchurch.

Fiji: Miss Barbara Cameron, of Eastbourne; Miss Julia Harvie, of Wellington;, and Miss Merrill Austin, of Palmerston North.