Donation of New X-Ray Equip

ment for Suva Hospital.

From Our Own Correspondent.

SUVA, Sept. 30.

THE Colonial War Memorial Hospital was erected in Suva —as its name implies—as a war memorial. Returned men and their wives and families get free treatment, prob ably as good a form of war memorial as could be devised.

The hospital owes a debt of gratitude to the Hon. Henry Marks, C.B.E., for his munificent

gift in 1920 of an X-ray apparatus at a cost running into some thousands of pounds. Even X-ray apparatus gets obsolete, and so the in stallation at the Memorial Hospital needed some kind friend to come forward and bring it up to-date.

Once more the Hon. Henry Marks has done what was required and has given £500 odd in the shape of new apparatus. Fiji has every cause to be appreciative of such a citizen as the Hon. Henry Marks —a well-loved figure in Suva