Sydney Club's Prize

Suva Medical School

COME time ago the Pacific Islands Club, of Sydney, decided to recognise the excellent work done for the native peoples of the Pacific, by offering a prize for annual competitipn at the Central Medi cal School at Suva.

The matter was. referred to the Princi pal (Dr. D. W. Hoodless), who suggested that the prize should take the. form of a medical work. The book was duly pur chased in Sydney, suitably inscribed, and forwarded to Fiji, The only stipulation made by the club was that it was to be awarded to a native medical practitioner.

The successful student was Geoffrey Kuper, of Santa Anna, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. “He has already passed his finals in surgery, public health, and medicine,” wrote Dr. Hood less to the secretary (Mr. Eric Ramsden), “and he is about to take his final exam ination in obstetrics, in which subject I have no doubt he will also qualify, thus becoming a qualified and certified native medical practitioner for the Administra tion of the British Solomon Islands Pro tectorate.”

Geoffrey Kuper has now completed his studied at the school, and will arrive in Sydney at the end of December on his way back to the Solomon Islands.