Dr. Rutter's Outstanding
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Service To Bsi
Prom a Special Correspondent THE outstanding service of Dr. A. G.
Rutter to the people of the British Solomon Islands was referred to at the annual meeting of the NZ Methodist Foreign Mission Board held in Auckland in February.
Dr. Ritter was for 10 years the medical officer in charge of Methodist missionary health work in the Solomon islands.
Since the war he has been on loan to the BSI Administration as -Senior medical officer.
Dr. and Mrs. Rutter have been visit ing New Zealand as a preliminary to de parting in March for England.
In an address to the Methodist Mis
sionary Board, Dr. Rutter said that, in addition to whatever medical work the BSI Government might do, there was still a wide field in which medical mis sionaries could do most effective work.
He urged the need for reconstructing the Methodist Mission Hospital which was destroyed during the Japanese invasion of the Central Solomons. He also urged the appointment of a doctor and of ad ditional nurses.
Uraia Koroi, who was sent to the Gat ton Agricultural College (Qld.) by the Fijian Government for a two-year course was recently pictured in the Bris bane “Courier-Mail” carrying out a tooth-inspection of a champion Clydes dale.