Help from Australia DPR/TV/547

In Vietnam, Australian soldiers continue the fight against the Viet Cong by combatting ignorance, poverty and disease. They are hepled immensely by donations from Australia of clothing, food and school supplies. At Vung Tau, centre of 1st Australian Logistic Support Group, tons of Australian aid goods are stored while distribution continues. At this depot, Mr Peter Frankel, of Melbourne, chairman of Defend Australia Committee, looks at a consignment of school books which are part of donations organised by the Committee. A donation of several thousand cakes of soap is loaded onto a Land Rover by civil affairs officers and men. The goods are taken to a school in a refugee village near Vung Tau, where eager children are quickly on hand to receive the soap. To them it is precious, and many of them have seen it only a few times in their lives. The village priest, Father Paul Tri and teaching nuns hand out the soap. When it came to an issue of school rulers and pencils by Private John Knowles, of Melbourne and Lieutenant Ben Morris of Parramatta, the children showed their eagerness to obtain these implements of learning. This school recently had a new wing added, built from money provided by the Australian Governemnt. And for the first time these children had a swing and playground area, built by Australian troops.