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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1952Vol. XXII, No. 8

Anti-Malarial Mosquito

p. 92 · Read in the full issue

Control

In Selected Places

Dr. Robert H. Black, Of Tl

School of Public Health ar Tropical Medicine, Sydne accompanied by Mr. L. Gray, Asst tant, left Sydney on February : for Port Moresby. Thfere th€ were joined by Dr. Jo.hn Gun the Director of Public Health in Ne Guinea, and proceeded to the Tr( briand Islands, to carry out malarial-control training proje< under the auspices of the Sout Pacific Commission, The Trobriands have bee selected because it is considered tl people there can be readily traine in mosquito control. Later th year, and next year, similar prc jects will be carried out in the Ne Hebrides and the Solomons.

The Rev. Allan Tippett, of tt Methodist Church in Fiji, flew 1 Sydney during February to discui damage to mission properl occasioned by the recent hurrican