Lepers From Samoa
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From Our Own Correspondent Tapia, Feb. 17.
HE auxiliary schooner Makoa (Messrs.
Burns, Philp and Co.), which left Apia on February 13 for Suva (Fiji), where she will be overhauled, had six lepers on board, being sent to the Mako gai Leper Station, in Fiji. Among the
lepers are one Niue Islander, one China man, and one Melanesian, with three Samoan women. It appears that of late the dread malady is on the decline in this territory.
Mr. F. H. Luff, manager of Dugumur Plantation, Madang, returned to New Guinea with his wife by the Montoro from Sydney on February 24.