Leper’s Trust Board
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Allocatiosn
Figures published in June show that the following sums (in NZ cur rency) were distributed for leper relief in the Pacific in 1951; Makogai, £5,000.
New Hebrides. £4.500 to each of Melanesian, Marist (Catholic), Methodist and Presbyterian mis sions for expenditure on vessels for leper relief.
South Solomons. £1,500 to each of the Melanesian, Marist and Metho dist missions *and £l,OOO to the Seventh Day Adventist mission.
Tetere Leper Hospital, Guadalcanal,
£L,Ooo.
Tahiti. £2,000 for Orofara Hospital.
Gilbert & Ellice Islands, £lOO.
Mr. Igor Allen and Mrs. Allen, Americans of long residence in Tahiti, returned there by the Waitemata recently. Mr. Allen is an artist and a skilled wood carver.
During the war he was employed for some time in the States training wounded servicemen in carving and handcrafts.
An investigation into the trans mission and control of malaria in BSI and New Guinea is being con ducted by Dr. R. H. Black of the School of Tropical Medicine,.
Sydney. The investigation is on behalf of the South Pacific Com mission and should be completed in July.