£220,000 Hospital

Work Starts On

Lae's

gEFORE this month is ended,

men and materials—already

assembled in Cairns—will begin

to arrive in Lae, to commence the erection of a European

Hospital, long promised and

awaited, which will cost

£220,000.

It will be placed on the edge of the Terrace, overlooking Huon Gulf, right in the town. It will serve the whole Morobe area.

The job is being carried out by Messrs. T. J. Watkins Ltd., of Cairns, who, for this purpose, have formed and registered T. J.

Watkins (New Guinea) Ltd. Mr.

S. A. Watkins, the man who will direct operations, has been in Lae making preliminary arrangements.

Accommodation already has been provided for a large staff of Euro pean and native workmen.

An inquiry into the death of Lord Michael Fitzroy, son of the Duke of Grafton, in the Russel Islands, on July 15, 1954, has been held in the BSIP. Finding of the Court was that the deceased met his death by misadventure, through causes un known.

H Sister Mary Davidson, of the Methodist Memorial Hospital, Ade laide, will leave Australia for New Guinea in about two months time to serve in an out-station clinic.

Her work will be mainly medical, but she will do some evangelical work. Her sister, who is married to a missionery, is also serving in New Guinea.

tl Mr. J. C. Parkinson, who has b appointed Assistant Conservatoi Forests, is expected to arrive in m September. Mr. Parkinson co] from South Africa, where he worked for the Forestry Departm for the past three years. Aged he is at present engaged in silviculture section of the Piei maritzburg Research Institute.