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Lord Howe Island
Representation win be made again shortly by Mr. D. Clyne, M.L.A., for the appointment of a Government medical officer to Lord Howe Island. This small dot of land is controlled from New South Wales, and is included in Mr. dyne’s electorate. He has raised the question in the House several times, but Lord Howe Island is still without a doctor.
By the last Morinda, a resident, Mrs. G.
Shick, had to bring her sick child to a Sydney hospital for an appendicitis opera tion. Several months ago, the Union Company’s steamer Monowai made a hur ried dash from her Sydney-New Zealand route to pick up a Lord Howe Islander who was seriously ill.
Captain O. Anderson, of Apia, Western Samoa, is at present in Australia on fur lough, At the beginning of June he was staying at the Hotel Metropole.
Mr. N. Penglase, Assistant District Officer in the N.G. Administration, de parted from Sydney for Rabaul after leave in Australia by the Macdhui at the end of May.