WORK AMONG LEPERS
The Lepers' Trust Board has made a grant of £6000 to the leper station at Makogai, where there are 645 patients, including 100 from New Zealand's own dependencies. Of the amount £3000 is to be devoted to the discharged lepers' rehabilitation scheme. As no central leper hospitals exist either in the British South Solomons or the New Hebrides, the board made grants of £500 to each of the following religious missions doing medical and leper work in either of those area: Melanesian (Anglican), Presbyterian, Methodist, Seventh Day Adventist and Marist. The board is gradually extending its work in the South Pacific, and for the first time /patients in New Caledonia will receive a goodwill present from New Zealand at Christmas.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 301, 20 December 1943, Page 4
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123WORK AMONG LEPERS Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 301, 20 December 1943, Page 4
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