New School for Tarawa
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THE new King George V govern ment boarding school was opened at Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, on June 3, by the wife of the Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, Mrs. M. L. Bernacchi.
It is not yet completed, but will eventually accommodate about 150 boarders. In June, 30 Gilbertese boys were attending, and a further 30 were expected from the Ellice Is.
The new school, which is located at Bikenibeu, about 8 miles east of Bairiki, replaces one of the same name formerly at Bairiki and de stroyed during the war.
The new Government hospital will eventually be built in this area close to the school. f Mr. A. Henderson, officer in charge of the Meteorological Office, Suva, left Suva in June on three months’ leave in New Zealand.