40 Migrant Doctors At Work

In New Guinea

THE administrator of Papua-New Guinea, Colonel J. K. Murray, who made a quick visit to Australia early in August, told a reporter that almost 40 of the Territory’s 50 doctors were post war refugees from Europe. Many had been famous surgeons and specialists in their own countries. The doctors had been selected from 120 who had ap plied for the positions.

They were settling down very well, and learned English rapidly.

Mr. Bruce Jones, of Honiara, BSI, was in Inverell, NSW, on leave in August.