Dr. Noel Mckenna Is
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ANOTHER well-known New Guinea personality has been added to the toll of World War ll—Major Noel Vernon McKenna, better-known as Doctor McKenna, medical officer in charge of Wau Hospital. He was killed accidentally in New Guinea on September 30. His wife and daughter Patricia were evacuated from the Territory in January, 1942, and are living in Adelaide.
Dr. McKenna graduated at Melbourne University in 1924, and went to England, where he took a degree in tropical medicine. He filled an important position in Singapore for three years. In 1934 he returned to Australia, and then went to New Guinea as a medical officer. When Japan attacked, he joined the NGVR, and later was attached to ANGAU as a medical officer. He was serving with this unit when he was killed.
The Rev. R. W. Allardice, and Mrs.
Allardice, of the Methodist Mission, were recently farewelled in Melbourne, prior to their departure for Western Samoa.
The Methodist Missionary Board’s reso lution congratulating the Queen of Tonga on the 25th year of her reign, has been illuminated, made into book form, and presented to her by the President of the Tonga Conference, Rev. R. C. G. Page.