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Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 July 1947Vol. XVII, No. 12

Nz Raises £25,000

p. 54 · Read in the full issue

For Lepers

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Suva, May 17.

A LARGE mark should be chalked up to the credit of New Zealand for the way in which its people voluntarily look after the lepers of the South Pacific.

The Lepers’ Trust Board has announced that a recent appeal raised £25,000, which is to be distributed as follows: New hospital, British South Solomons, £8.000."

Rehabilitation Depot, Suva, £4,000.

Leprosy Survey, New Hebrides, £3,000.

Makogai Leper Station, £3,000.

Melanesian Mission (Anglican), British South Solomons, £2,000.

Catholic Mission, British South Solomons,

£L,Ooo.

Methodist Mission, British South Solo mons, £l,OOO.

Seventh Day Adventist Mission, British South Solomons, £l,OOO.

New Leper Settlement, Aoba, New Heb rides. £l,OOO.

Leper Hospital, Wallis Island, £5OO.

Leper Hospital, New Caledonia, £5OO.