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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1950Vol. XX, No. 7

Hospital Staff, Tamavua, Fiji, 1949

p. 41 · Read in the full issue

Miss D. T. Pederson has resigned from the post of Nursing Superintendent, Fiji, to join the staff of the World Health Organisation, one of the Specialised Agencies of the United Nations. She will be employed on contract for two years as a Regional Nursing Adviser for South

East Asia. Her headquarters will be in New Delhi and the area with which she v/ill be concerned will include India.

Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ceylon and Burma. She expects to leave Fiji in February and will re-visit her home in New Zealand before going to India.

The London Missionary Ship, John Williams VI, made its first visit to Pago Pago, American Samoa, on New Year’s Day. Many residents took the oppor tunity of inspecting the well-appointed little ship.

FRONT ROW: S/N N. Ligairi, Str. S. Miles, Str. A. B. Thomson, Miss Butt (Matron), Str B.

Bamford, Str. G. Devery, Str. M. Groome, S/N L. Maharaj. ROW: Koini R., Sera V., Vasenai V., Asena R., Mere Q., Vasemaca L., Veniana V., Makereta T., Asilika B. BACK ROW: Maria M., Lusiana K., S/N A. Lewatu, S/N R. Narube, S/N V. Rayacarogo, S/N J. Viloa, S/N J. Tabua Eleni R., Makereta L.