Papeete’S “Maison De
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Sante”
TT was stated in the November issue of A the Pacific Islands Monthly that Dr. S.
Rabinovitch was to take charge of the surgical department of the recently opened “Maison de Sante” in Papeete, Tahiti. It now appears that that state ment was based on erroneous information.
Dr. Rabinovitch has been resident in Tahiti for some years past as a private citizen, and is naturally ready to give his moral and sympathetic support to any project which provides improved medical facilities and thus has a direct bearing upon the health of the Colony.
We are asked, however, to correct the statement that he is connected with the “Maison de Sante” as a surgeon, and to make it clear that he has no financial or other direct interests in this estab lishment.
Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Hides, with their 10-months-old daughter, June, arrived in Sydney from the Lakekamu goldfield, Papua, by the Van Rees on March 17. Mr.
Hides is a brother of Mr. Jack Hides of the Papuan Administration. Mrs. Hides met her husband when she was nursing at the Port Moresby European Hospital, and after her marriage she went with him to Lakekamu, where most of the time she was the only white woman.