Be Remembered

Leper Man Will

A CHAIN of hospital dispensaries, strategically sited to serve sick people in the territories of the South- West Pacific, will perpetuate the name of the late secretary of the New Zea land Lepers’ Trust Board, Mr. P. J.

Twomey, who was widely known as the Leper Man.

The new secretary, Mr. D. Douglas, said in Christchurch that the first dis pensary—for the Melanesian Mission —would be built on the island of Ugi, BSIP, with funds raised by the collection of tea coupons in New Zealand.

“The appeal for tea coupons con tinues,” Mr. Douglas went on. “and by January 31 the Lepers’ Trust Board hopes that sufficient funds should be available from this source to build two additional treatment centres, one each for the Methodist and Roman Catholic Missions in the South Solomons. “It is hoped the public will continue contributing coupons as there are many projects which can be financed by this means.”

Mr. Douglas also announced re cently that over the past 30 years the Lepers’ Trust Board had raised more than £1,000,000 for leprosy relief in the South-West Pacific, and that re ports sent back by the late Mr.

Twomey on his last fact-finding mission emphasised the necessity for the board to continue and extend its work.