Anti-Leprosy Fight
pp. 129-130 · Read in the full issue
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SEVERAL years ago a doctor was heard to say that there “would not be more than 300 lepers in all Central New Guinea.” Instead of that, there are thousands. At the Hansenide Colony, at Togaba, alone there are about 400.
The institution at Togaba (which is 11 miles past Mount Hagen, in the Western Highlands) was visited in February by Pastor A. J. Camp bell, of the SDA Eastern Highlands Mission, Goroka, who was accom panied on the jeep trip by Pastor E.
Roenfelt, an Australian, who has been with the church’s head office at Washington, DC, for eight years.
Pastor Campbell comments that the Hansenide Colony is run by the SDA Mission with strong Govern ment support. A second colony will be opened shortly at Hartsfelthaven, north-west of Madang, and is ex pected ultimately to receive 500 leprosy patients. This will be operated on similar lines, with Gov ernment support, to the Hansenide Colony.
The mission is awaiting the arrival from America of Dr. Yeates and his wife, who is also a doctor.
Dr. Yates will be responsible for the medical oversight of these and other medical institutions. (I Miss Mary Edwards, well-known Australian artist, who returned in March from a painting expedition in New Guinea, will in future sign her paintings with her legal name, Mary Edwell-Burke. She has made this decision because of confusion caused by her use of the two names.
H Mr. A. T. Low, formerly in the service of Messrs. Burns Philp (SS) Co. Ltd., has been anpointed Man ager of the Lautoka Branch of Messrs. W. R, Carpenter (Fiji) Ltd.
Mr. .low, during 19 years, served the Burns Philp Co. in various branches notably Rotuma, Pago Paro, Norfolk Island —and latterly has been Accountant at the Head Office in Suva.