Rarotonga Begs Hospital
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Supplies
IT was proposed at the Rarotonga Island Council meeting on February 11, that the various villages should contribute food for hospital and sanatorium patients.
Avana, Tupapa and Avatiu agreed, but other districts, including Arorangi (the most extensively planted and the wealthiest) were unwilling.
In the difficult years, the people of Rarotonga gave food generously to feed the hospital patients; but m the prosperous nost-war period, when subsidies from the NZ Government were increased, the practice ceased. £9 Cost of food in 1955-56 was near