"Talkies" For Makogai
p. 18 · Read in the full issue
Leper Station.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Suva, Feb. 7.
AS the result of a public appeal sponsored by the Rotary Club of Suva, the Makogai Leper station will soon be equipped with an up-to-date “talkie” plant. The appeal met with a ready response—£l,o4l being received.
Of this, Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa con tributed £726, while the N.Z. Rotary Clubs gave £315.
The American 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation will donate a regular sup ply of film programmes for Makogai, while the Union Steam Ship Co. will carry films for the leper station free of charge from Australia or New Zealand.
Recently Mr. W. J. Hutchinson, Foreign Manager for 20th Century-Fox Films, passed through Fiji, and in U.S.A. he interested Mr. Alfred P.
Sloan, jr., Chairman of the Board of General Motors Corporation, in the leper settlement. The result has been that Mr. Sloan and General Motors have jointly given a Chevrolet seven pas senger station wagon for the use of the nursing sisters on Makogai.