UNRRA RELIEF WORK

Chronicle (Levin), 5 July 1946, Page 4

UNRRA RELIEF WORK

In spite of her own "food shortages, Britain has accepted UNRRA food orders to date for over £3,000,000 and is readv to offer further supplies, inciuding herrings and pilchards from United Kingdom catches, and Colonial products such as West African cocoa and Ceylon tea, Nearly £5,000.000 worth of clothing, footwear and blankets have been delivered and £2500 worth of cotton and woollen piece goods, and additional supplies can be offered. Medical supplies sent include 200-bed and 40-bed hospital units, as well as a wide range of other supplies. Farm machinery and implements of all kinds, fertilisers and pestlcides. inciuding 10,000 tons of copper sulphate to save the Italian wine crop. have been sent, together with seeds imainly potatoes) and equipment for fisheries. British funds have also been used to furnish 13,000 mules and 6000 donke\Ts to Greece and Yugoslavia from Aj-niy '• surpiuses in Italy . and Cyprus. Britain has deliyered £250,000 worth of raw cotton and £500,000 worth of leather. Larg etonnages have also been shipped of copper, zihc, tin and lead. while iron and steel products, chemicals and fibres have also been sent. The cost of £10,000,000 worth of raw wool received by UNRRA is being divided between the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Industrial equipment covers a wide range such as electrical equipment, inciuding mobile power stations shipped to Byelo-Russia in the Ukraine, water suppiy and sanitaiy plant for Yugoslavia, tele-com-munication' equipment for China and other countries, railway equipment, large quantities of Bailey bridges and military railway bridges, port equipment, ro?.d repair and -construction gear, maonine tools and other items.