Notable Nmp's
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Award of "PIM" Annual Prize
JN order to assist the excellent work of X the Central Medical School, Suva, Fiji—where selected young native men from all the South Pacific Terri tories, except New Guinea and Papua, receive a four years’ course in medical training and qualify as Native Medical Practitioners—the proprietor of the “Paci fic Islands Monthly” has arranged to send copies of “The Practitioner” (well-known journal of the medical profession) to out graduates of the Central Medi cal School, on the nomination of the Director of the School.
Each year the “Pacific Islands Monthly” will donate £4/4/- for this pur pose - xt will W two subscriptions for one year to “The Practitioner,” on behalf of two NMP’s or one subsrrintinn for two years to one NMP according to the Director’s recommendation. The two NMP’s who this year have been awarded this modest prize are: Theodore Dainirob, of the Medical Department Nauru Island r’pntmi Par>i £* parimem ’ muru Island ’ Central Paci- Alohikau Eva, of the Medical Depart ment, Nukualofa Tonga MoaiCal Depart The rep orts on these two voung men are most favourable• young “NMP Theodore Dainirob Qualified in Decemberl94oand sTpp c been compelled by war to Tut his duties here in Pin Hp man charming personality a
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been able to make arrangements so that Dalnirob can proceed by air to Auckland and then travei by a British Phosphate Co.’s steamer direct to Nauru Island NMP Calls Cain, also of Nauru who qualified in December, 1944, will return to Nauru along with NMP Dainirob.”
“NMP Alohikau Eva qualified in December, 1934. During his medical training in Fiji he carried off nearly all the prizes he could possibly win. He has been stationed in several centres in Tonga, where his medical work has been of a high standard. During the war he was commissioned as captain in the Tongan Military Forces. In 1944 he re turned to Suva for a period of post graduate training, including three months’ special training in leprosy work at Makogai Island. Hi is now back in Tonga.”