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Papuan Medical
Trainees.
From Our Own Correspondent
Pt. Moresby, Sept. 30.
Dr. Walter M. Strong, Chief
Medical Officer of the Territory, left Port Moresby by the “Macdhui” on September 28, in charge of 12 native medical trainees who go to the Sydney University for a 12 months’ course in the elements of medicine, to fit them out as Native Medical Assistants for the Medi cal Department of Papua.
Dr. Strong will be away from the Ter ritory for four or five months. He in tends to stay in Sydney and supervise the studies of the natives.
The party of young Papuans arrived in Sydney on October 4 and attracted con siderable attention. Later, the students were welcomed at the School of Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney, by Major C. W. C. Marr, Minister in Charge of Islands Territories. The object and purpose of this interesting experiment were described in an article in this journal in July.