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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 March 1946Vol. XVI, No. 8

US Medical School

p. 7 · Read in the full issue

Established in Guam

A MEDICAL School for the training of selected natives as medical practi tioners in the Mariana, Marshall and Caroline Islands has been set up by the United States Navy on the island of Guam. Buildings are in course of rapid construction.

The six American-Samoan natives who have been in training at the Central Medical School, Suva, for about one year,

SPECIAL general meeting of members of the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney will be held in the Feminist Club Rooms, 77 King Street, Sydney, on April 13, at 2 p.m. Important business concerning the future of the Club will be discussed and all are asked to attend.

have been transferred to the Guam School, and other students are being en rolled.

This is a disappointment for the directors of the Suva School. It was re ported in the “PIM” a few months ago that the United States Navy had been discussing the whole subject; and it then was hoped that the Americans, instead of establishing their own school north of the equator, would continue to make use of the Suva institution, where a number of lads from American Pacific Territories have been successfully trained. However, there probably will be close liaison be tween the two schools.