CHRISTMAS APPEAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 26 November 1936, Page 4

CHRISTMAS APPEAL

FOR MAKOGAI LEPERS

We have received the following leticr from the joint trustees —Dr. T. Fletcher Telford and Mr P. J. Tworney —in connection with the above appeal: •‘We wish to express to our subscribers our very deep appreciation of the magnificent response made to this ear’s appeal on behalf of our leper friends iat Makogai. At the same time we must - xpress to your esteemed paper our sincere thaniks for helping us with this most worthy object. It has been mainly through the medium of the Press that we were able to got in touch with ail classes of people of the different denominations. We also wi:-h to thank 3YA and 3ZM for their gen er. ms assistance. • I p to date we have received £llBl in rash and about 55 cases of useful ,ood . The first consignment of gifts will have Christchurch this week. Any in t iier subscriptions received after the . J)( h instant will be used in the pur-.-ha.se of goods to be sent forward by a ’nil i steamer. The Medical Superini ’mh-nt of Makogai, Dr. C. J. Austin, •r ing communicated with in order to know the wishes of his patients, as io what gifts should be purchased. In few days’ time we hope to publish the final acknowledgment for this year. •-.Tn conclusion. we wish to take this opportunity of thanking most sincerely tin' Inion Steamship Co., of New Zea’iind, for th. 1 free carriage of goods to Makogai, and also the directors and management of the Christchurch Gas < tmpany for making it possible to cariy on the appeal from their offices.”