QUAIL ISLAND.
LEPERS SATISFIED WITH TREATMENT. The fate of tho leper is always a. most .unenviable* one, but) it appears that those quartered on Quail Island, in Lyttelton harbor, are well satisfied with the treatment they have received from, the Government, and everything possible is being done for these unfortunate victims. Mention was made by tho Rev. E. Y. P. Leo, Chinese Missioner at . Wellington, in a report to the Anglican Synod, of a visit h© had paid to Quail Island. “On my last visit to Christchurch,” bo said, “I visited tho island. Nine patients were 'there, including two Chinese. One of the< lepers seemed to have a good knowledge of the Bible, and slated how bo realised the good points of Christianity since ho came to the island.”
The patients, liei said, spoke ' very highly of the treatment they have received from the New Zealand Government, and also from many Europeans. “Heathen people would never go to visit lepers in China,” he added, “not even their own relatives. Therefore, these men marvelled at my visiting them,”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16174, 10 July 1923, Page 9
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177QUAIL ISLAND. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16174, 10 July 1923, Page 9
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