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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1955Vol. XXV, No. 10

Modern Planning at Nurses’ School

p. 65 · Read in the full issue

Nurses’ School

niJI’S Central Nursing School at “ Tamavua, near Suva, where 213 girls—nearly all of them ’ijians—are taking a 31 years’ ourse, has one of the most modern itchens in the Colony.

Planned by the nutrition section f the South Pacific Health Service, nder Miss Susan Holmes, the kit hen provides meals for staff nurses n duty at the Colonial War lemorial Hospital as well as for the jhool’s trainees, the food being ransported to the CWMH in jainless steel containers.

To cope with meals for 300 people irery day, the kitchen is equipped ith a large Steam oven, two giant ressure cookers and an electric ;ove.

The school was moved in January ’om old and cramped quarters at le CWMH to new buildings at amavua, a hill suburb which al ;ady accommodated the tubercu sis hospital and the new head larters of the Central Medical ffiool.