Picture Theatre For
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Makogai
WORK has begun on a picture theatre for the patients at the Central Leper Hospital, Makogai. The theatre, which is being built by the Pub lic Works Department is to be paid for by the Lepers’ Trust Fund Board. When completed it will accommodate an audi ence of 700. There will be a stage and dressing rooms at one end of the theatre and a projection box and store rooms at the other end. The sides will be open and the theatre has been placed so that the prevailing wind will blow through it.
The two film projectors already at Makogai were a gift from the Suva Rotary Club and generous supplies of films come regularly from producing companies, making it possible to hold at least one picture show each week. The nursing sisters act as operators, but at present the screen is placed in the open air, the patients seating themselves on mats on the ground. —From Fiji Public Relations Office Bulletin.