O.B. E. For Cook Is. Medical

Officer.

fTTHE award of Officer of the Most Ex- X cellent Order of the British Empire was conferred upon Dr. Edward Pohau Ellison, M. 8., Ch.B., Chief Medi cal Officer and Deputy Resident Commis sioner of the Cook Islands, in the N.Z.

New Year’s Honours.

A member of one of the best-known Maori families in the South Island, Dr.

Ellison was bom in 1884, and, after at tending Te Aute College, qualified in medicine at Otago University. Appointed medical officer and Deputy Resident Com missioner of Niue Island in 1919, he per formed such sterling work that he was promoted to R.C.

Later he served temporarily as Resid ent Magistrate and Medical Officer in the Chatham Islands, and after taking a post graduate course in surgery made a study of tropical diseases in Western Samoa and other Pacific Groups. He also made an extensive investigation of the modern treatment of leprosy at the Makogai set tlement, Fiji.

In 1926 he was appointed Chief Medi cal Officer and Deputy Resident Commis sioner for the Cook Islands. The follow

ing year he returned to New Zealand to take the post of director of Maori Hy giene, in succession to Dr. P. H. Buck.

This he held until 1930, when he took up

his former duties in the Cook Group, with headquarters at Avarua Hospital, Rarotonga.