A SPLENDID RESPONSE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 6

A SPLENDID RESPONSE

CHRISTMAS APPEAL FOR LEPER PATIENTS The response made by the people of New Zealand and Rarotonga to the appeal by the Minister of the Cook Islands for Christmas comforts {for the leper, patients at the Makogai leper station has been generous in the extreme; and Sir Maui Pomare desires to make his grdteful acknowledgments to all who have assisted. Undoubtedly the recent 'visit of two of the French nursing sisters to New Zealand, on furlough, helped greatly to stimulate interest and sympathy in the welfare of the patients, and in the extraordinarily fine work which the sisters of the French Catholic Mission are carrying out in the remote tropical islands of Makogai. Christmas gifts included cash and appropriate gifts of all kinds* Suitable £0 patients of all ages. These gifts,' through of the Union Steam Ship Company, the Railway Department, and the Post and Telegraph Department, will be transported free to the leper island, in good time for distribution on Christmas Day. On behalf of the French nursing sisters, Dean Regnault returns thapks to the donors. He was particularly impressed by, and feels especially grateful for, two parcels—one from a girls’ class of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Sunday) School (with a monetary donation from the teachers), and another gift from some little" girls of St. Peter’s Mission branch of the King’s Crusaders. , \