Retirement Of

Cook Is.

Medical Chief

Dr. E. P. Ellison's 26 Years' Service

AFTER 26 years in the medical ser vices of New Zealand Pacific ter ritories, Dr. E. P. Ellison has retired.

He, with Mrs. Ellison, arrived in New Zealand from the Cook Islands on the December “Maui Pomare.’’

Edward Pohau Ellison was born near Dunedin, NZ, 61 years ago, and is a member of one of the best-known Maori

families of the South Island. He went to Te Aute College and later qualified in medicine at Otago University. He was appointed medical officer and Deputy Resident Commissioner to Niue in 1919 and later became Resident Commissioner of the island.

Later he was temporarily Resident Magistrate and Medical Officer in the Chatham Islands and then took a post graduate course in surgery and studied tropical diseases in Western Samoa and other Pacific groups.

In 1926 he was appointed Chief Medi cal Officer and Deputy RC in the Cook Group, but the following year he re turned to New Zealand to become Direc tor of Maori Hygiene, in succession to Dr. P. H. Buck. He held this position until 1930 when he returned to his for mer duties in the Cook Islands. In the 1938 New Year honours he was awarded the OBE for his outstanding work for New Zealand territories in the Pacific.

A photograph of Dr. E. P. Ellison, taken with the matron of the Avarua Hospital, Rarotonga, some years ago.