Students

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Official Thanks To Suva

Prom a Special Correspondent

Port Moresby. Oct. 3.

rE first batch of medical orderlies trained at Idubada, near Port Moresby, under the Commonwealth Government’s Reconstruction Training Scheme, have almost completed the course, and will leave soon to take up duty. Most of these trainees had some experience in medical work during the war.

There are also Medical Training Centres now at Lae, Mount Hagen and Garoka, and two more are soon to be opened at Angoram and Rabaul.

Meanwhile students who were sent some months ago to the Central Medical School at Suva are still struggling with their courses. The Administrator, Colonel J. K.

Murray, recently recorded a message to these students which was broadcast over 9PA and later flown to Suva.

Colonel Murray told the students that the work they are doing is of great im portance to their country. After their years of training it will be their job, with the colleagues who will later share their burden, to encourage good food habits, prevent disease and cure illness. For centuries it has been a British ideal, continued the Administrator, to so care for other people that they are able to develop a sound mind and a sound body.

The Administrator expressed the grati tude of the Australian Government to the authorities in Fiji and the staff of the Medical School for finding room for students from New Guinea in days when they were hard-pressed for accommoda tion.