Fine Type Of Young Natives At Central Medical School, Fiji
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WHEN Sir Walter Carpenter was in Suva on January 12 en route to America and Europe, he presented the “Sir Walter Carpenter Shield” to the cricket team of the Central Medical School winners in the 1937-8 competition of the United Cricket Association. The group shows the winning team and those who took part in the presentation. In
front, from left to right, are: Dr. D. W.
Hoodless (principal of the Central Medical School), Aisaki Niu (captain of the School’s Eleven), Sir Walter Carpenter, Major Clive Brewster, and Mr. J.
Amputch (secretary of the Cricket Association).
A most interesting feature of the photograph is the glimpse it gives of the
types of young men who are being train ed at this now famous institution, to take their places in the different terri tories as native medical practitioners, Here are Polynesians from Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands; Indians from Fiji; Melanesians from New Hebrides and Solomons; Micronesians from Fiji and the Gilbert and Ellice Colony.