LEPER STATION VISITS
COURT FINES HUSBAND BRISBANE, Oct. 20 Secret visits to the Peel Island lazaret by a man with a private launch, on which he entertained his wife, woo is a patient" at the leper station, were described by police in Court to-day. For having contravened health and home affairs regulations,' Leslie Leonard Ebbage, hotelkeeper, was fined £lO.
Police said that when intercepted Ebbage. had his wife and another woman leper patient on board the launch. His father was also on the launch. Ebbage had admitted visiting the island secretly for the past four months, they said. Ebbage was prosecuted under a new regulation adopted following disclosures some months ago that unauthorised persons were making frequent visits to the lazaret, even spending week-ends there. Visitors had been intermingling freely with patients, it had been revealed, and some had built shacks on the beaches.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20602, 1 November 1941, Page 5
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