ASSIGNMENT IN CHINA
AT the request of the International Relief Committee of China, Colin W. Morrison, Dominion Secretary-
Treasurer of CORSO, will leave New Zealand in October for China, to take up the position of Assistant Executive Director of the IRC, and to be CORSO’s accredited representative in China. He will head the unit of 22 New Zealanders who will be scattered through the country, and like them will receive roughly the equivalent of an army private’s pay. His work will include receiving, allocating, and distributing relief and rehabilitation supplies. from _ Britain, Canada, the U.S., and New Zealand, to the mission hospitals of China, as well as giving technical jservice in helping the hospitals in rehabilitation. The request for his visit came from the Standing Committee of the IRC. Madame Sun Yat Sen (chairman of the China Welfare Fund) and others also joined in the request. Earlier this year Mr, Morrison was sent to China by CORSO to investigate China’s needs.:His coming visit is ee to last two years, _
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 7
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169ASSIGNMENT IN CHINA New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 7
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