Increasing

Torres Strait Islanders Are

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Thursday Is., Sept. 24.

fTVHE “P.1.M.” is to be commended upon A the publicity given in the August issue to Dr. Sylvester M. Lambert’s conclusions upon native health in the South Seas. By the application of plan ned health measures to the Torres Strait Islanders, their numbers are gradually increasing, and on some of the islands the population has actually doubled in two decades. Although there are many hundreds of islands in the Torres Strait only about two dozen can be inhabited

but upon these there are now almost 4,000 virile natives.

The news of Dr. Lambert’s enforced retirement through failing eyesight will be received with real regret wherever he has laboured in the interests of the native races.

Mrs. C. A. M. Adelskold, of Wau. ar rived in Sydney early in October by plane from New Guinea.

Miss Edith M. Twyford, of the Meth odist Mission, arrived in Sydney recently from Papua. She is stationed at the hospital at Salamo.