Those Jubilee Medals!
p. 58 · Read in the full issue
"DIGGER Resident of New Guinea" writes caustically on the subject of the Jubilee Medals. He cannot understand why, in the distribution of this token of appreciation of good citizenship, the “real pioneers’’ and other deserving persons, have been overlooked. Why, he asks, should this thing have been confined to Government servants and official person ages?
“Where are the medals for the mining men, who pioneered the industry which saved the Territory? For the planters, for our intrepid airmen, for our commercial men, for our jungle-breaking prospectors, and for the always-forgot ten missionaries?
“The recipients belong to one class, and one only. The whole things reminds me of days back ‘on the other side,’ when medals came up with the rations, and the Colonel kept a box of spares for distribution among a favoured few.’’
Dr. F. W. Clements, of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the Sydney University, departed for Papua by the Montoro on May 25. Working in co-operation with the Papuan Adminis tration, he will be engaged in medical research work for three months in the Delta division, north-west of Port Moresby. Dr. Clements will give particular attention to research on tropical ulcers and the treatment of malaria by different drugs.