Tropical Medicine Specialist
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In Fiji
Sir Philip Manson-Bahr, Formerly
Consulting Physician to the Colonial Office and Crown Agents for the Colonies, and a recognised authority on tropical diseases, arrived in Fiji in January to carry out an investigation into mosquitoes and filariasis in the Colony.
He will be joined later by Mr. Telford Work, of the University of California, who will make a colour film on the subject.
Sir Philip Manson-Bahr was in charge of the Stanley Research Expedition to Fiji in 1909 and in a report, published in 1912, he laid the foundations of research into mosquito-borne diseases in the Colony.
Sir Philip’s son, Dr. P. E. C. Manson- Bahr, is on the staff of the Medical De partment in Fiji.
Mr. A. D. Playfair, export sales super intendent for W. D. & H. O. Wills (Aust.) Ltd., is well known in most of the Pacific Islands through his periodical trips to the various territories in connection with the distribution of “Capstan” cigarettes and tobacco and native trade twist tobacco. He left Sydney on February 3 by PAA airliner for Noumea, New Cale donia.