The Solomons
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Dr. J. D. Thomson Leaves
AFTER four’ eventful years as the Melanesian Mission’s medical officer at the central hospital, Fauabu ESI, Dr. J. D. Thomson has resigned and taken a private practice in Sumner Christchurch, NZ.
During his term in Melanesia, he and his wife, a trained nurse from New Zea land, carried out splendid work, but the future of their young family must now be considered.
Recently, Dr. Thomson acted as Senior Medical Officer for the British Solomon Islands Protectorate Government. En thusiastic reports have come to hand of the way in which he organised his work
under very difficult conditions during the Japanese occupation and his knowledge of the jungle was of great assistance to nurses and other members of the staff who were forced to retreat from the advancing enemy.
A former District Commissioner of Fiji, Mr. Alexander Edward Bailey, is dead, aged 80. He spent all his early years in the Colony, where he was associated with the sugar industry. He joined the Fiji Civil Service ih 1903, and retired in 1923.
Dr. John William Hunt, who spent 23 years in Fiji as a District Medical Officer, died in Gloucester, England, last August. He is survived by his wife and a daughter.