Leper board gift
A grant of $40,0(10 would be made for the building of a medical lecture theatre for the Fiji School of Medicine, the chairman of the New Zealand Lepers Trust Board (Mr A. H. T. Rose) announced on Saturday.
The announcement was made simultaneously in Fiji by the Prime Minister (Sir Keith Holyoake), who is attending the Independence Day celebrations.
“We felt that on a special occasion like this we should do something special,” Mr Rose said last evening. A grant of $120,000 had been made by the board last year for Fiji’s leprosarium, the P. J. Twomey Memorial Hospital, which was opened last November, he said. The principal objective of the board in Fiji was to look after the running of the hospital, including the rehabilitation of patients. The other main task was to administer the Fiji School of Medicine, which assisted in the education of doctors to serve all South Pacific territories, said Mr Rose.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32425, 12 October 1970, Page 12
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