Samoans Do Well At Suva
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Medical School
From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Aug. 16.
f JNDERGOING training to become native medical practitioners, six young Samoans are receiving tuition at the Central Medical School, Suva, Fiji, and encouraging reports have been received by the Administration of their progress.
The following particulars are taken from the Medical School’s last quarterly report.
First Year—Siaosi Tuioti: General progress, excellent, w«s top student in the First Year class: chemistry, 90 per cent; physics, 91 per cent; biology, 92 per cent. Uale*i Toelupi: General progress, very good ; chemistry. 83 per cent; physics, 80 per cent; biology, 85 per cent.
Second Year—Amosa Sio: General progress, very good; anatomy, 84 per cent; physiology. 84 Per cent. Sale leremia: General progress, fair only; anatomy, 68 per cent: physiology, 49 per cent.
Third Year Siaosi Talofou Faale: General progress, good; medicine. 70 per cent; surgery. 60 per cent; public health and hygiene, 86 per cent, Peti Tofaeono: General progress, very good; medicine, 78 per cent; surgery. 69 per cent ; obstetrics, 70 per cent; public health and hygiene, 90 per’cent.
Mr. Ivan Champion, of the Papuan Administration, who made a notable patrol through Western and Central Papua last year, and who has been on leave in Australia, sailed for Port Moresby by the Van Rees on August 20.
Mr. John Farrow, an American author and scenarist, has written a book on the life of Father Damien (Joseph de
Veuster), the Belgian Catholic priest
who laboured for 18 years among Hawaiian lepers on Molokai Island. It is entitled “Damien the Leper” and already has run into several editions. Mr. Farrow is the husband of Miss Maureen O’Sul livan, the film actress.