Supplies From N.Z. For Viet Cong

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31109, 12 July 1966, Page 5

Supplies From N.Z. For Viet Cong

"The Press” Special Service

AUCKLAND, July 11

The New Zealand Medical Aid Committee for South Vietnamese Peoples has sent medical supplies to the Red Cross of the National Liberation Front in Vietnam, the political arm of the Viet Cong.

Sent through the British Medical Aid Committee for Vietnam, the supplies were shipped through Moscow and taken to Vietnam by the Soviet Red Cross.

The supplies, worth £BBO included £5O worth of a drug for treatment of dysentery in children, 10 sets of surgical equipment, 125 bottles of blood substitute, 45,000 antibiotic tablets and 55,000 antimalarial tablets. The secretary of the Auckland branch, Miss E. D. Salisbury, said that it was easier to send supplies through the British committee because it had direct contact with Vietnam.

"We hope to keep up a regular flow of help with the assistance of the British committee,” said Miss Salisbury. Medical equipment was more readily available in Britain and the New Zealand committee was now affiliated to the British committee.

The shipment was the second to be sent to Vietnam by the New Zealand committee. A smaller consignment arrived in Vietnam about a year ago.