Sudden Death Of Samoan

Medical Practitioner

From Our Own Correspondent APIA, April 9.

WHILE on a medical tour with the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Monaghan, the Samoan senior medical practitioner, lelu, of the Government Hospital, died suddenly at Amaile, Aleipata, on March 27.

For long years lelu had served the Ad

ministration in the Medical Department, having entered the service as a cadet in 1921. He had been trained at the Central Medical School, Suva, Fiji, where he dis tinguished himself by passing his ex aminations with honours in 1931, when he returned to Samoa, to be senior medical practitioner.

He was a very capable and efficient worker, extremely popular with the Samoans of all factions and with his superiors and the staff of the Apia Hos pital.