Filariasis in Maldives

i SMALL expedition of three 1 scientists, sent by the World Health Organization, has been irveying the extent of filariasis in le Maidive Islands, a British Pro ictorate, 400 miles west of Ceylon.

The Maldives comprise an rchipelago of about 2,000 small Dral islands with a total population f some 85,000. Of the 4,000 persons xamined by the three scientists, rincipallv in the southern atolls, tie in every three was found to be iffering from some stage of lariasis. They surveyed the breed ig places of the mosquitoes and scommended ways of control, giv ig practical demonstrations of imple methods of prevention, litiating them in one village.

Naea Fu’e Komisi, the driver of a bus which plunged down a cliff near Solosolo, Western Samoa, in July, killing three passengers and injuring 14 others, was recently fined £35 and had his licence suspended for two years. He was convicted of negligent driving but the jury recommended that his previous good record be considered.

The Rev. and Mrs. William Anderson, who recently retired from the Presbyterian Overseas Mission after 53 years service in the New Hebrides, left Sydney after a short stay, in early November. They are now living in New Zealand —at 16 Havelock St., Ashburton. Canter bury, NZ.