Memorial Hospital For Lord
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Howe Island
AIDED by a Government grant, the Gower Wilson Memorial Committee, which has raised £2OO, is building a cottage hospital on Lord Howe Island.
It will contain two wards, an operating theatre, and a dispensary. Mr. C. Ret mock has given portion of his land on the island; Burns, Philp and Co. will carry the materials and equipment on the “Morinda” at half rates: and Lord Howe residents will erect the hospital volun tarily.
It will be a memorial to the late Mr.
Gower Wilson, who, with his son Jack and a crew of four, was lost between Sydney and Lord Howe in his launch “Viking” in November. 1936. Previously, the Islanders were isolated from trained medical aid until last year, when a doc tor subsidised by the N.S.W. Health Dept., took up residence on Lord Howe.
Dr. Peter H. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), the New Zealand-born director of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Hawaii, has been awarded a diploma of honorary fel lowship by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.