Ngāti Wheke Te Hamo o Tū Te Rakiwhānoa has been installed on Quail Island, overlooking Lyttelton Harbour from the island's highest peak. Later, 14 men were sent to a leprosy colony on nearby Quail Island between 1906 and 1925. Quail Island leprosy patients on a hut verandah. Kingsbury, writing in The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony, said Te Iringa found himself in a "run-down colony without a nurse". DAVID ALEXANDER DE MAUS Quarantine Island with the hospital buildings on a knoll, and jetty below.

Source: Stuff February 09, 2020 03:00 UTC