MAKOGAI LEPER FUND
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —I recently made an appeal in your paper for assistance to the lepers at Makogai. Also when broadcasting from Christchurch we announced to the patients at Makogai who were listening to me that we were going to help them again this year. We have since entered into the European war and in the upset I feel that our suffering friends who look to us for sympathy may be forgotten. My responsibility is a heavy one, and I feel I must try to the utmost of my ability to carry out this promise, and not to disappoint our suffering friends.
As soon as we have received sufficient support to be able to give some little gifts to each of the 619 lepers, we will close the appeal at an early date, and so leave the way clear for the patriotic societies. May our New Zealand people give these island friends a little encouragement to keep up heart, and so wage a war against this dread disease of leprosy. With gratitude for the help given us in the past.—l am, etc., P. J. TWOMEY, Hon. Secretary, Makogai Leper Fund. P.S. —Gifts of goods or cash may be left with Mr. A, H. Williams, c/o S. S. Williams Co., Ltd., 120 to 124 Umbton Quay, Wellington. Telephones 41-184 and 50-040. j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 64, 13 September 1939, Page 8
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