New Tb Hospital In Fiji
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rE Methodist Overseas Missions had been asked to supply a nursing staff for a hospital for tubercular patients which the Fijian Government had decided to establish at Tamsmia, in Fiii, the sec retary of the missions (Rev. J. W. Bur ton) told members of the Women’s Auxiliary at their annual meeting in Sydney in March.
A matron, three trained nurses, and 10 trainees would be required. Four nurses had already volunteered, Mr. Burton said.
For rehabilitation awaiting the missions in the Islands and in India, £lOO,OOO had been saved, but .it was possible that £250,000 would be needed.
Mr. V. R. Cleary, of the Fiji Customs Department, has been transferred to Northern Rhodesia as a Customs Officer.
He was born in Suva and joined the Cus toms Department as a clerk in 1927 and has been in the Customs Department con tinuously. During last year he acted as Comptroller of Customs at Lautoka.
A recent portrait of Ravuama Vunivalu, winner of the Morris Hedstrom Scholarship for 1945.
This award was announced in February “PIM.”