[?]habilitation of Lepers

FORE he left recently for France on leave, Dr. Ferron, the medical superintendent of Hansenian Sanatorium of 3S. New Caledonia, appealed to Caledonians to help rehabil discharged patients. •. Ferron said that there was mdency amongst employers to ;e to employ these people, even gh they had a clean bill of :h, for fear of causing trouble agst the rest of their staffs. >wever, he said, Hansen’s ise was much less dangerous a great many other diseases were taken as a matter of se. ie doctor said that discharged ;nts were naturally hyper tive about their affliction and heir discharge they needed the uragement of the community.

Generous New Zealanders

e allocations were recently made by spers' Trust Board of New Zealand to (lowing institutions;

. and Mrs. Arthur Walker, of land, recenly paid a visit to ;i. Mr. Walker was born there ears ago—his father was the Mr. Arthur Walker, and his er formerly was Miss Sophie man.

1 Leprosy Hospital, Makogai, £ South Solomons • Melanesian 2,000 lican) Mission 3,500 (Catholic) Mission 3,500 list Mission . 3,500 h Day Adventist Mission . 1,000 i Hospital, Tahiti (erian Mission-Cottage Hospital, 500 Hebrides Fund for Leprosy els — British South Relief Solomons: 4,000 elanesian Mission 4,000 arist Mission 4,000 ethodist Mission 4,000 :w Building Fund 3,000

Allocations . . .

£33,000