Nelson Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [Gibbon, A. W.]
issued: 2024-05-08
issued: 1966-04-20
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0442517/source.json
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note: $90 Will Send This Boy to College■..♦ Will You Help? Former Nelson Man Seeks Aid STUDENT EDMUND TJABAN TEMPERATURES Nelson 25 52 — 1 Toronto 45 57 .03 1 Calgary 8 38 — ft Penticton 21 51 — w Vancouver 34 58 — A Whitehorse 32 43 .22 w Spokane 17 48 - By D. C. KOLFAGE News Editorial Director MORIJA, Basutoland — Negligible in Canada,.but an almost insurmountable obstacle in this small British territory surrounded by South Africa, $90 stands between a young Mosatbo boy and his cherished dream of becoming a teacher. The situation was brought to the attention of the Nelson Daily News by a former resident, Dr. N. D. Abbey, who now serves as a mission doctor at a 70-bed interdenominational hospital at Morija, where he met Edmund Tjaban through his sister, a nurse in training there. He issued a plea to readers of the Daily News to help the boy. "I thought, there might be some interested readers who would help," Dr. Abbey wrote. Basutoland, 'If all goes well," is soon to become independent, the doctor said. There has been a terrific drought and for this reason many lads, such as Edmund, are finding it difficult to raise school fees." The $90 is really a difficult amount to raise in this country," he explained, "and anything that might be raised by the Daily News would be a great help to him." Basutoland is a small British territory entirely surrounded by South Africa, and with a population of about one million persons of whom less than 2000 are white. The Scott Hospital at Morija, where Dr. Abbey serves, handles large numbers of outpatients, from 100 to 200, daily. It' is located at an altitude of 5700 feet above sea level, and, Dr. Abbey says, "We see no tropical diseases" but "The winters, are bitterly cold." Mrs. Abbey teaches nursing at the hospital, which conducts a four-year nurses training course. Their two sons, the doctor said, speak the native languages fluently. Dr. Abbey's father, at one time, operated a bus line between Nelson and Kaslo. Enclosed with his letter…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0442517
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Company, Limited
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text