WORK FOR LEPERS IN PACIFIC
Memorials To Mrs P. J. Twomey A plaque to the memory of Mrs P J Twomey, wife of the secretary of the New Zealand Lepers’ Trust Board will be erected in St Elizabeth Home. Suva, where discharged leper patients are taught useful handcrafts and helped in the difficult period of rehabilitation Mrs Twomey, who died in Christchurch last February, was particularly interested in the work of the home, at which she spent considerable time during a visit to Fiji The Governor of Fiji <Sir Kenneth Maddocks) will open the Twomey Hall of Arts and Crafts shortly and the dedication will take place at the ceremony The support Mrs Twomey gave her husband over 30 years will also be recorded at a leprosy hospital in the Solomon Islands where another plaque is to be erected com-
memorating her “devoted service” to sufferers from leprosy and tropical diseases in the south-west Pacific.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29866, 5 July 1962, Page 17
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