LEPERS IN LUGGER
TWELVE IN SMALL HOLD BAD CONDITIONS ALLEGED. Bad conditions under which 12 aboriginal lepers were being transported from Beague Bay to, I)arwin in the 13ton lugger W. S. Rolland, owned by the Port George Mission, were alleged in a recent message from Broome, Western Australia. The message stated that through the loss of her anchors the vessel returned to Broome, and an examination disclosed that seven women and five men nuffering from leprosy were quartered in a small hold, where they slept and did their cooking. The deck leaked badly and when the lugger was coming down to Broome in heavy weather water trickled through wetting their, bedding thoroughly. The lepers, it is stated, werei not supposed to go on deck during the two weeks' voyage to Darwin. It was stated that when the hatches were on to keep out the sea the lepers must have suffered acute jnconvenience from smoke during cooking. The crew-of five lived on dock and Captain H. Scott had a small cabin. On a pearling lugger only five or si* men are placed in the hold.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21580, 26 August 1933, Page 8
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184LEPERS IN LUGGER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21580, 26 August 1933, Page 8
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