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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1955Vol. XXVI, No.1

Leprosy Work

p. 94 · Read in the full issue

Big Sums Donated for Leprosy Work

IN 12 years the New Zealau Lepers’ Trust Board has allocate £90,000 to the Fiji Lepers’ Tru Board. w When the Acting Governor of Fi (Mr. A. F. R. Stoddart) was opes ing the new discharged patienn hostel at the Korovou Leper Sua Station, Suva, in June, he describd the Dominion’s help as “stupem ous generosity.”

Of the New Zealand allocation j Fiji, £15,000 has gone to aid lepro 1 work in the British Solomons. T 1 balance, supplemented by 1o c c donations, has been spent at tt Fiji Leprosy Hospital, Makogai, as at the Korovou Sub-Station.