OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS
A magnificent response ——- (To the Editor.) Sir— We wish from our hearts to thank your numerous readers and the general public for the magnificent response made to the appeal for the lepers at Makogai. Altogether we received the splendid sum of .£4.574 in cash, and about 100 cases of useful goods. Owing to the unsettled times in which we are living, we have advised Dr C. J. Austin, the Medical Superintendent. to conserve and lay aside some money for future years. There are now 635 patients on the island and the result of our appeal will enable all the patients (particularly the bedridden ones) to receive little delicacies and gifts on numerous occasions during the year.
In July last we formed an Incorporated Trust Board of 15 gentlemen to continue these appeals for suffering humanity and we wish to express our personal appreciation of the confidence that has been placed in outboard.
In conclusion we express the wish that all who helped the appeal in any way whatsoever may share in the joy of the patients at Christmas time.— Yours, etc., T. FLETCHER TELFORD, M.D., P. R. CLIMIE, J.P., P. J. TWOMEY Trustees, Makogai Lepers' (N.Z.) Trust Board Christchurch. December 18.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 6
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204OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 6
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