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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 April 1947Vol. XVII, No. 9

Outstanding Medical

p. 80 · Read in the full issue

Student

rE Special Prize awarded by the Pac ific Islands Society, Sydney, to the outstanding member of the Gradua tion Class of the Central Medical School, Suva, Fiji, was won, in 1946, by a Fijian student, Jona Uluinairai Mataika, son of the Rev. Nathaniel Mataika, senior Fijian minister of the Methodist Jubilee Church, Suva.

Mataika, who was head student in his last two years, entered the Central Med ical School in January, 1943, and qualified as a Native Medical Practitioner on Dec ember 5, 1946. He is now stationed at the Government Hospital, Levuka.