N.I. Administrator.

Entertained by Hospital Board.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Norfolk Is., Sept. 9.

ON August 31, a very pleasant party was held in the garden of our little hospital, in order that the wives and families of the Board and the ladies who compose the Hospital Guild should have an opportunity of meet ing, informally, the new Administrator and Mrs. Pinney, who had already paid an official visit to the institution, but who are most cordially meeting all sec tions of the community and making themselves popular wherever they go.

Tea was served on the lawn and, in response to one or two very brief speeches of welcome, His Honor said that he had been most agreeably sur prised by the up-to-date fittings and thorough equipment of the establish ment, even to an X-ray plant, which he considered an essential on this isolated island, although he had heard that

many people did not agree. He said that while it was not so large a build ing as that in Port Moresby, Papua— from which Territory he came to us— our hospital was much better equipped and more modern in every way. He congratulated the Board on the good Avork it was doing and complimented the ladies of the Guild for their ready assistance whenever asked.

Mrs. Pinney succeeds Mrs. Bennett as patroness of the Guild.