SUDAN UNITED MISSION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21247, 29 July 1932, Page 6

SUDAN UNITED MISSION

ILLNESS OF WORKERS RISK OF CLOSING STATIONS Cabled news that Mr. K. R. Wale, of Heiban,. in the Kordofan province of the Eastern Sudan, has been stricken with blackwater fever, has faced the authorities of the Sudan United Mission,-whose agent he is, with serious problems and difficulties. Word was received in Auckland yesterday that Mrs. Wale also was ill and that both had been conveyed to hospital at El' Obeid. Such an illness makes it essential for Mr. Wale to leave the country at the earliest moment, and as all five stations of the mission are working on a minimum staff one of them at least will have to be closed until reinforcements can arrive from New Zealand or Australia. The Government will not allow women missionaries to remain alone at these posts so far removed from civilisation. At Ileiban, which may have to be sacrificed, there has been built up in the last 12 years a large boys' school and a girls' school, and a training class for native clerks carried on at the request of the Government. Medical treatments are regularly given to about 100 patients every day. To help to meet this emergency Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Cato,® formerly of Otnuo and now of Melbourne, have offered £SOO to the mission conditionally upon a similar sum being raised in Victoria. Mr. and Mrs. Wilfrid L. Mills, of Takapnna, at present on furlough in Auckland, have offered to curtail their furlough with a view/to immediate return, and will probably be leaving early in August.