SPORT ON MAKOGAI ISLAND
thing for us free of oharge. By the Hinemoa we have received six full programmes of films for the cinema, films given by the Australasian Films Company. ' ..-..•..
"Altogether, with the gifts received from Fiji, New Zealand, Niue, etc., the patients have had the best Christmas since the opening of the leper station;: and, of course, some of the "gifts, such as the cinema, are giving pleasure every; day, and will do so for years. . • "You can hardly guess the excitement of the patients when they saw all the boxes being landed. Qf course, ■we could not open all these riches and give none away at once. We could not icsist giving some dolls and toys to the children; so that Christmas reaßy starteel the day the boxes arrived. "I am sending you some photographs to give you a small idea of the jdya of the season, and to show you how the gifts have been appreciated. I wish I had time to write to our many friends; but you know how little time we have for correspondence. Our friends can feel certain, however, that they have given, a lot of joy to.' ova !|ear poor liners ;»nd from tfie little ■uilaad of Makogai hearty pra-yeis ate
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 9
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