THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “ Public Service.” MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1943. THE LEPER MAN

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THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “ Public Service.” MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1943. THE LEPER MAN

Once again the annual appeal by Mr P. J. Twomey, known by common consent throughout the. Dominion as the “leper man” has come to hand. The wonderful fight he has put up for the lepers of Makogai and the country-wide organisation he has set up in their interests has made him a veritable champion of the outcasts of outcasts. Tens of thousands have contributed to his annual Christmas shipments to the isle of .isolation, which has, largely due to his instrumentality been transformed from one of suffering and affliction into one of happiness and hope. His appeal this year is for light materials (new) for women’s and children’s clothing, silks and embroidery cottons, sunshades or light umbrellas, singlets, sandshoes, games, bats, tennis racquets, tobacco, pipes, fishing gear, sweets, soap, children’s books and needle magazines. Like our readers we know that he will not fail in his mission and that once again the gift ship will sail from New Zealand bearing its cargo of good things which go so far to dispel gloom from the lives of those who are afflicted with the earth’s foulest disease.