LEPERS’ TRUST

Press, Volume C, Issue 29469, 22 March 1961, Page 17

LEPERS’ TRUST

Allocation Of

£BO,OOO

The allocation of a record sum of £BO,OOO was announced by the secretary of the New Zealand Leners’ Trust Board (Mr P. J Twomey) yesterday. The distribution. as approved at a recent meeting of the board . includes grants for medical and leorosv work in eight different Pacific territories, extending from the Solomons ! n the west to Tahiti in the east.

An important item in the allocation is £6OOO to be used for equipment for three new dispensaries planned for treating mothers and their babies in the British Solomons and the New Hebrides This follows the allocation last year of £l2 000 to build four dispensaries.

Last year the board made a,special appeal so that di=nensaries might be built with a view to reducing maternal and infant mortality. The sum of £l6 500 is earmarked for the unkeen and running costs of the lenrosy relief vessels bought by the board for the Church of England. Roman Catholic and Methodist missions in the island chains of Melanesia.

Another substantial item is £6500 to build a training centre for nurses at the r»re«brterian Mission in the New Hebrides. In recent vears the work of the boasd has greatly increased. Office and storage accommodation wbfoh war nreviouslv onite ademiate is not now sufficient For that reason the «um of £llh n o appears in this year’s allocations under the heading of new building fund Details of the allocations ’re as follows: New Hebrides (£13.500) r>resbvterian Mission new nurses’ training centre, gosoO: Anglican Mission £.3000: Catholic Mission .£3OOO- British Ante-natal and Child Welfare Campaign £lOOO

British South Solomons (£22<wn _ Anglican Mission. FsnoO: Catholic Mission. £soon- Methodist Mission. £5000: Seventh-dav Adventist M’ssfon hospital dispensary. £3ono- qov+h Sen EV Mission. £sofl: Central f.enrosv Hospital, Tetere £lOOO- North Solomons relief £2.500

Lenrosv Relief Vessels—lnsurance. etc., and Running Costs (£ißsnoi Anglican vessel. £5500- Catholic vessel cssnn- Methodist vessel £5500

<£. HOOni _ Centra) f.enrosv Hospital. Makoga’ econo- B-oshv+erian Wn«mital Fni. £2OOO- rehabilitation nlan. £2OOO- Korovou substation £lOOO- Eastern and Bfestem c amoa «I’oo- rjn. hert and Fllice Group. £5OO- - £5OO- New Caledonia £5OO- sundry allocations £lOOO.

Equipment for three new dispensaries for treating babies and mothers in the British Solomons and the New Hebrides. £6OOO. New building fund. £ll.OOO. Total, £BO,OOO. “I am indeed proud that the response to our appeal has been such that we are able to allocate a record sum for the alleviation of distress in these islands of New Zealand's *Near North’,’’ said Mr Twomey. “This splendid result is due entirely to the generosity of New Zealand donors, and as well as being a work of mercy, it is the best sort of public relations for New Zealand.”