[?]en Salote Opens

New Vavau Hospital

E Sione Gnu Hospital at Jeiafu, Vavau, bears the given” name of Prince elehake, the Tongan Minister ealth, who was present when n Salote opened the hospital pril 12. sting more than £T30,000, the d hospital includes a well inted theatre, X-ray plant, il clinic, outpatients’ depart and spacious laboratory, as as the wards and private s. 5 old hospital buildings are converted into a nurses’ home i TB ward. sen Salote is keenly interested ealth questions, and in her ;ss before opening the new tal, she said the institution be regarded also as a school s the people could learn . about the improvement of health and living standards, short religious service was icted by the Rev. Sione apani, head minister of the iyan Church in Vavau. ten the Queen inspected the tal she was accompanied by ’ongan Medical Practitioner in :e at Vavau (Lutuni Fonua). s official party included Prince elehake and his wife, Princess laite; their son, TJluvalu; e Tungi’s son, Taufa Ahau; rnor Ahome’e of Vavau and wife; Miss Madge Mexted, on of the Vaiola Hospital at alofa; Dr. K. Bowman, CMO ukualofa, and Mrs. Bowman;

and Dr. Farquhar Matheson, consultant at Vavau, and Mrs.

Matheson.

In the afternoon a feast for which 500 pola (7 ft stretchers piled with food) had been prepared, was held at the Neiafu malae, and guests were entertained by gaily costumed dance-parties from the major Vavau villages. t Outlining the traditions and customs of the North Australian Aborigines, a book in Fijian Kuhou ni Buka (“Smoke of the Fire”), has been published by the Methodist Mission Press, Suva. The author, the Rev. Meli Tukai, worked in North Australia from 1937 to 1948.