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Medical Services
First Appointee Arrives in Suva
rE first Inspector-General of South Pacific Medical Services, Dr. J. C. R.
Buchanan arrived in Suva recently.
This position was created following an investigation of public health and medical services in Fiji by Dr. Watt and Miss Lambie of the New Zealand Department of Health. The Service embraces the Territories of the Western Pacific High Commission and the New Zealand Island Territories as well.
The Inspector-General’s headquarters will be in Suva.
Dr. Buchanan has served as a medical officer in Tanganyika, Somaliland, East Africa and Uganda.
Before he joined the East African Medical Service he was a well-known Scottish International Rugby footballer.
Miss Dorothy Dawkins, daughter of Mr.
J. H. Dawkins, formerly of Vila, New Hebrides, was married last year to Mr. K.
G. Maitland, and is now a resident of Queensland. Mr. Dawkins has been on the staff of the Australian Allied Works Council for the past year.