To Become Nurses In

Australia

Two Girls From Pitcairn

r ROUGH the good services of the High Commission for the Western Pacific, it has become possible for two young ladies from Pitcairn Island to attend the Seventh Day Adventists’ Mis sionary College near Newcastle, NSW.

They are Miss Irma Warren and Miss Thelma Christian, aged 18 and 16, who are now preparing to enter the Sydney Sani tarium Hospital to train as nurses.

Such a scheme has been advocated for a long time by certain members of the mission. By bringing these young people from isolated Pitcairn it is possible for them to receive special training that will help them later to fill a useful position in the island community.

The two girls are settling down well, al though they are still somewhat homesick for their old life. Australia at first was a never-ending wonder to them. Neither had seen trams, cars or trains, and they got a violent thrill from riding on them Cows and horses hitherto had been ani mals of which they had heard but never seen. Their first baker’s cart was a shock from which they have scarcely recovered yet.

The greatest joy to date, however, was when they visited Newcastle a few weeks after their arrival and caught again a glimpse of the sea, for which they had been hungering. FPW.

Mr. and Mrs. A. W. James, of Suva, Fiji, celebrated their silver wedding on June 9. $