LEPER FUND

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 38, 9 January 1945, Page 3

LEPER FUND

LIST OF ALLOCATIONS SUM OF £15,000 DISBURSED Thanks to New Zealand's generous response to their recent the Lepers' Trust Board (Inc.) —itself a New Zealand Societj'—lias, been enabled to allocate no less than £15 000 'J for the welfare of lepers in the various South Pacific Islands, including £2000 to the. Governmentcontrolled station at Makogai for comforts and rehabilitation of discharged lepers. An endeavour is being made to hurry along the erection, in the British South Solomons of a general hospital for all and the commencement of a Leper Village I Scheme for less serious cases. At present most of this work is done by the various mission bodies and the Trust has therefore made grants to these Bodies for the building of small hospitals or dispensaries and the equipment thereof. Similar allocations have been made also in j the New Hebrides. Where the activities of a Church Body is limited to one area the grant is £1000 •j ' but where it operates in two the grant, is £1500. The British Consul in New Caledonia has very kindljf offered his services to the Trust Board and a small committee will be established there to arrange the provision of additional dispensaries and the distribution of comforts to a total value, of £1500. That the work of the Board has been useful and appreciated is evidenced by the commendations and thanks from the British Colonial Government of Fiji, the New Zealand the Free French Government in New Caledonia and also from the New Zealand Missions Committees, of the Presbyterian, Seventh Day Adventist and Catholic Mission Bodies working in the South Pacific. The Board 5 however fully realises that in reality these commendations apply primarily ot those generous and charitable people who have responded to its appeals. The following are the. allocations for 1944:- —British South Solomons.: New hospital in Solomons £5000; Melanesian Mission (Anglican) £1000; Methodist Mission £1000; Seventh Day Adventist Mission £1000; Marist Mission (Catholic) £1000. £9000. New Hebrides: Presbyterian Mission £1000; Melanesian Mission £500; Seventh Day Adventist Mission £500; Marist Mission £500, £2500. New Caledonia: Dispensaries and equipment etc. £1000; Additional comforts £500. £1500. Makogai Leper Station: For comforts and rehabilitation £2000. Grand total of allocations £15 000. This, is the third successive year that the Board has made substantial grants to the Religious Denominations doing Leper work in the South Pacific area.

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