HELP FOR LEPERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 4

HELP FOR LEPERS

(To tue Editor.)

Sir, —I wish to take this opportunity of thanking your correspondent G. R. C. for his very kindly referr ence to the wprk done by the Lepers Trust Bfoard- Urif pjrtunately hjs let-; tej? has created in the minds of §pme of your readers the. impression that iwe are primarily wo?<k.ing fr h>lß the l "noble-hearted women nurses of the) Roman Catholip faith on Makogai island." This is not sp. We are not working to assist, the Government °r the sisters but the. suffering lepers of all creeds and colours, it is merely incidental that these sisters are doing this work, Sir Arthur Richards? late Governor of Fiji, states that *'quite 751 per cent, of the patients are not of \he same religious persuasion, as, the sisr ters." This is to their- predit m& I think WeUingtPn can feel honoured in that these leper sisters have 8 house in Aurpra Terrace. Our lepers T?rust Board has jssisted all le.pers at MiftkPeai, Fiji, Cook glands, 'Sampa t an^ the Sotith. 3PlQm,ons, anjj i s now en* gaged in extending its work, to other parts of the world, In orqer to bring about immediate relief tp the lepers m the British South Solomons a sum of £ 250 eaph was last ye.ar allocated tp the Methodist, Melanesian, Seventh pay Adyentist, ppvith Sea Evangelical, and Marist Missions who gre doing the medical an 4 leper wqrk in the fetter islands. Trusting that you will pub-= lish tms letter in/prdsr to remove any misunderstftnd.ingv- 1 am, etc, >. j. tWPMJdV, m lepers Trust Board, Jnc,