Compliment To Medico

A REMARKABLE compliment was paid recently to Dr. C. M. Dawson, M.L.C., oi Western Samoa, when there was pre sented to the Administrator a numerously signed petition, asking that the Govern ment take steps to induce Dr. Dawson to remain in Samoa. It was reported that Dr. Dawson, with a quarter century of army medical activity behind him, had decided to don khaki again in this new Hitler War, and was making arrange ments to leave the Territory.

It was pointed out that Dr. Dawson’s work in recent years, among the popula tion of Samoa, had been of almost in calculable benefit, and that the loss to Samoa of a medical practitioner of his unique tropical experience would be far greater than any possible gain to the ex peditionary forces of New Zealand.

We have not neard the result of the petition; but, knowing Dr. Dawson we should not be surprised if the Admini strator is obliged to resort to handcuffs and a leg-rope if he wants to keep his valuable medico away from the of gun powder.

Miss Lilia Lashmar, who is a worker lor the New Guinea Mission at Sangara, Papua, was in Adelaide. South Australia, m December on her first furlough.