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Pacific Islands Monthly, 22 February 1933Vol. III, No. 7

T.I. Resident Settles

p. 36 · Read in the full issue

At Daru.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Pt. Moresby, Feb. 8.

IT is reported that Dr. G. H. Vernon from Thursday Island has settled at Daru in the Western Division of Papua, and that he has recently pur chased the business of Mr. P. R. Hinds.

It is reported that Dr. Vernon intends making a study of the diseases of the western tribes and the natives of the Fly River.

The western tribes are interesting and primitive without the gloss and veneer that covers some others.