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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 June 1911, Page 6

The happy days wo spend in health Seem all too soon to glide away. Then comes a time when each of ns Must to some illness be a prey. And ns an illness oft beer ins With cruel cough, or chill or cold ; It’s best to take Woods’ Peppermint Cure, A drug that’s worth its weight ■ in gold.—Advt. The leper patients at Quail Island are reported to be as comfortable and happy as can ho expected in their isolation, hut they find the. time heavily hanging on their hands during the long winter nights. The caretaker at the island has a gramaphono and a number of records, with which ho gives recitals, which are greatly enjoyed by the, patients. As the nights are now very cold and the darkness sets in very early, the patients have to fall back on their own resources for amusement during the evenings, and they have expressed a. wish to have a gramaphono in one of their huts, and to ho operated by themselves. The gramaphono, which was presented by a gentleman two or three years ago, has been kept by the caretaker, as, if it were in the patients’ rare, it could not he taken away for repairs in the event of its getting out of order. i