Leper Settlement Fashions
The women on Makogai Island of different races, numbering in all over two hundred, dearly love needlework and they have a great aptitude for hand work and ahe clever designers. Mrs C. J. Austin, wife of the Medical Superintendent, was quite pleased with the new dress made by herself and wore it at a showing of movie pictures. One of the young women patients must have got busy with her needle before the next picture night for she herself was now wearing the exact replica of Mrs Austin’s frock.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 1, 25 November 1947, Page 5
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92Leper Settlement Fashions Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 1, 25 November 1947, Page 5
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