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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1955Vol. XXV, No. 12

Total £30,000

p. 161 · Read in the full issue

Allocations For Lepers

THE Lepers’ Trust Board, New Zealand, has announced alloca tions totalling £30,000 for medical and leprosy work in the South Pacific. They are: Central Leprosy Hospital, Makogai, Fiji, £ 2,000; Melanesian (Anglican) Mission.

British South Solomons, £3,500; Marist (Catholic) Mission. British South Solomons, £3,500; Methodist Mission.

British South Solomons, £3,500; Seventh day Adventist Mission, British South Solomons, £1,000; Leprosy Hospital, Tahiti, £5OO.

Special fund for leprosy relief vessels: Melanesian (Anglican) Mission, British South Solomons, £4,000; Marist (Catholic) Mission, British South Solomons, £4,000; Methodist Mission, British South Solomons, £4,000.

For Cottage Hospital for Presbyterian Mission, New Hebrides, £4.000.

Naboro, an area of 1,700 acres on the Queen’s Road, about 12 miles west of Suva, has been proclaimed a forest reserve.