LEPERS AT MAKOGAI

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21320, 13 November 1934, Page 16

LEPERS AT MAKOGAI

* CHRISTMAS CHEER FUND To provide Christmas cheer for the 427 lepers isolated at Makogai, Fiji, gifts of money amounting to £167 7s Id have been received. The Minister for Railways and the PostmasterGeneral have reduced charges to half rates on all parcels from the South Island, sent, to Mr P. J. Twomey of the Christchurch Gas Company, who is directing the appeal in Christchurch. The. appeal will close on Saturday next, November 17. Previously acknowledged, £149 17s Id; Helen Nichols, Maheno, £4; Jessie King, Southland, £1 Is; M. L. ; Gleeson, Napier, £1 Is; Sympathiser, ' £1; M.M., Green Island, 10s; C. Coneys, 10s; Miss M. Preen, Nelson, : 10s; M. J. Waghorn, Little Akaloa, 10s; Mrs A. Jones, Waimate, 10s; "Murray ! Place," 10s; Mrs St. J. J. Dunne, 10s; Mr and Mrs McKeown, 10s; Miss M. Ward, Hokitika, 10s; Mrs M. Barker, 10s; "Old Kumara," 10s; Miss A.M., 10s; Prince Albert road syndicate, 7s; Mrs A. Mcßride, Wataroa, ss; Miss F. Evans, ss; Mrs H. Fryer, ss; Mrs Ballinger, Woodend, ss; Pigeon Bay , Sunday School, ss; Mrs R. H. i Jebb, ss; C. Hickey, Hawke's Bay, ss; H., Timaru, ss; C.P.E., ss; E. L. Spratt, ss; "Bunny," Hokitika, ss; M.A.G., 3s; I M E.B. and H.H.8., 3s; N. McPherson, I Caversham, 2s 6d; "Listener-in," 2s 6d; Sympathiser, 2s 6d; A. W. F. Jones, 2s 6d; "X," 2s 6d; Bluff, 2s 6d; V. Morris, Dunedin, 2s 6d; Mrs Somerville, Dunedin, 2s 6d; total £167 7s Id. Also tools for woodwork, gramophones and record* musical instru-

merits, pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, fishing lines, sewing silks, embroidery cottons, linen, etc., Jig saw puzzles, games, dolls, sweets, and children's books from Mrs H. M. Young, Miss E. Sinclair, Miss H. McQuillan, Miss St. George, No Name (7), Mr Bright, M. and 8., Convent School, Mosgiel, Miss J. McGill, Mrs H. Cowell, A. H. Parish, Mrs Ballinger, K. Hodgson, Maurice, "Auckland Tertiary," Mrs L. J. O'Connell, "Portobello Friends," Misses Hill-Jack, Mrs R. J. Ryall, Mrs L. McKay, Miss Frances Taylor, A. W. F. Jones, Mrs J. Hannan, Mrs F. Smith, Teresa Quirk, Mothers' Union, Waikari, Mrs S. Wade, Miss Sayers, Mrs G. Nee, Miss Harrington, Lesley Ellis, K. Kelly, J. O'Malley, Mrs H. and Miss G. Gimblett, M.E.D., Anglican Scout Cubs, Nelson, Mrs F. E. Smith, Mrs Holderness, Geo. Featherstone, Mrs Somerville, Sympathisers (8).