By Hypodermic—New Way to Take Coconut Milk

Take Coconut Milk

PASSENGERS per MV Baker which called at the Gilbert! and Suva from Micronesia dur ing January, included Mr. and Mrs John Wheat, who will study at Fiji’s agricultural experimental station and Dr. Arobati Kicking, who will visit members of his family in th< Gilberts.

Dr. Kicking, who belongs U Tabiteuea, has just completed s year’s internship training at Hik Memorial Hospital, Hawaii. During the war he was interned by thi Japanese on Kusaie, between th* Marshall and Caroline Islands. H: saved many from the effects of star' vation by giving them intravenoui injections of coconut milk draw: directly from the coconut by syring? and needle—something that hatj never previously been tried.

UMr. J. S. Thomson, Adminise trative Officer, Fiji, is on leave t: the United Kingdom and at thr end of his leave will be seconder for service for a time in the Colomas Office in London.