LEPROSY RELIEF IN PACIFIC
Trust Board Ship Launched (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 17. The Minister of Island Territories (Mr T. L. Macdonald) today launched the first of three similar 55ft vessels being built at Auckland for the New Zealand Lepers’ Trust Board. He used not the traditional bottle of champagne but a bottle of coconut milk, a symbol of the area in which the ship, the Fauabu Twomey, will serve in carrying out leprosy relief work in the Pacific. The ship will be run by the Anglican Mission in the Solomon Islands and is expected to sail from Auckland about the middle of May. The remaining two vessels for which today’s ceremony was a token launching, will go to-the Methodist and Roman Catrolic missions. Each will cost about £20,000 and will be fitted with a 95 h.p. diesel engine and be ketch-rigged.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28256, 18 April 1957, Page 6
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