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The Council elected as its Chairman the delegate from Norway, Mr. Frihagen, with, as "Vice-Chairmen, the delegates for Australia, Yugoslavia, and Byelorussia. Greece, India, New Zealand, and Poland were elected to the General (or " Steering ") Committee, which consists of members of the Central Committee, the Chairman and Vice-Chairmen of the Council, and four other members chosen at the session. Dr. Rajchman (Poland) and Sir Atul Chatterjee (India) were elected chairmen of the Committee on Policy and the Committee on Procedure respectively; these are Committees on which all membercountries sit and where the bulk of the work is carried through. The Committee on Supplies, of which New Zealand is a member, had one meeting during the Geneva session ; its subject matter can be best mentioned later in this report. A general picture of UNRRA's achievements to date and of the tasks still outstanding may be sketched by quoting some material from the Director-General's oral statement of 7th August, 1946, and his written reports up to 30th June, 1946 : "... During July (1946)," said Mr. La Guardia, " UNRRA broke all previous records by shipping over 2,000,000 tons of supplies. Much of this was vitally needed rehabilitation equipment, procurement of which was initiated in 1945 and early 1946. "We have shipped a total of over 13,000,000 tons. " The total programme of UNRRA up to December, 1946, will be 2,937 million dollars . . . and there is not any more. (The United States contributed slightly over 70 per cent, of the total.) Not one of the contributing nations has made any provision for UNRRA for the year 1947." In more detail, the following shows the volume and value of shipments under the programme as completed to the end of June, and the value of total programmes to the end of 1946 :

By receiving countries the estimated values of shipments to the end of the programme are as follows (with a figure in parentheses showing the percentage of fulfilment to the end of June, 1946) : —■

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To 30th June, 1946. To 31st December, 1946. Commodities. Tons. United States Dollars ('OOO's). United States Dollars ('OOO's). Food Clothing, textiles, and footwear Agricultural rehabilitation Industrial rehabilitation Medical and sanitation Supplies procured from military Unclassified 5,905,439 391,095 849,950 4,092,521 103,274 1,181,410 331,556 800,654 303,563 130,805 260,163 64,728 138,504 22,472 1,120,977 448,675 361,771 707,341 156,280 138,504 3,592 All commodities 12,855,245 1,720,889 2,937,140

Total Programme, Percentage fulfilled United States to 30th June Dollars. 1946. China 550,000,000 (31) Poland .. 474,000,000 (66) Yugoslavia 429,000,000 (77) Italy 425,000,000 (45) Greece 358,000,000 (78) Czechoslovakia 270,000,000 (65) Ukraine .. 189,000,000 (48) Austria .. 117,000,000 (65) Byelorussia 61,000,000 (62) Albania .. 28,500,000 (55) All countries (59)