Rabaul Hospital Orderlies
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Reported On Strike
Prom a Special Correspondent RABAUL, October 7.
THERE appears to be some sort of un official strike on here to-day among the Native Medical Orderlies. Native out-patients were, at any rate, unable to obtain medical attention this morning be cause the orderlies are alleged to have demanded equal pay to that of the Chinese hospital nurses, most of whom were widowed by the war. The native orderlies seem to think also that their meat ration is insufficient, although they are receiving double the issue prescribed on the new Administration food scale.
The New Order has, as yet, not affected the Native Police, who are doing their job with pre-war efficiency and winning the admiration of Territorians.