School

Wau Has A Boarding

Enterprise of Lutheran Mission

From Our Own Correspondent WAU. March 5.

NOTHING more has been heard of the oronosed Wau High School, the building of which was deferred last fear by the Denartment of External Ter •itories. But Wau is to have a boarding school nonetheless.

The Lutheran Mission is spending ap proximately £40,000 on a co-educational establishment built on an elevated posi ;ion on a lease purchased some time ago.

The two large dormitories, separated by self-contained matron’s quarters, are cap ible of accommodating 40 children. Two :eachers have already arrived —one from :he United States, the other from South Australia —and have found well-planned quarters awaiting them. These two young women expect to start their teaching jobs m March 13 when there will be an initial enrolment of 19 children.

The school house is a large airy build ing containing two large classrooms which :an be thrown together by opening fold ing doors, a library and a science room.

Recreation and dining rooms, with all electric kitchen and laundry form a sep arate unit. The establishment has hot and sold water services and a sewerage sys tem. Water comes from a 25.000 gallon underground tank.

Six guest rooms are to be built to ac commodate the parents of the pupils.

Parents are entitled to spend four to six weeks each year with their children in Wau’s healthy climate and it can be imagined that this will be popular with coastal residents. The Mission intends to run its own dairy herd, poultry and vege table gardens.

This ambitious undertaking now nearing completion is a monument to the industry of the Mission’s local representative, Mr.

L. Berendorff.

Mr. Terence F. Fenton, accompanied by his wife and three children, arrived in Fiji recently from New Zealand to take up an appointment as an Assistant Works Engineer (Development). He is the son of Mr. E. P. Fenton of Suva.

The Canadian cruiser HMCS Ontario will visit Suva from March 17-20. She Is a Colony Class Cruiser of 9,000 tons.

After leaving Fiji she will take part in exercises with the Australian and New Zealand fleets off the Australian coast.