Tropicalities

Link With North-West

Islands Of Ng

WITH reference to your note on H. R. Wahlen’s once-famous home on Maron islet, I have just found here in Brisbane an in teresting link with those North west Islands (writes “Ganasi,” from Queensland).

In 1920, I went to Manus ana thence to all the Islands beyond Maron, to take over the H. R.

Wahlen properties for what was to be the Expro Board. Later, most of the Germans there were rounded up and sent home to Germany.

At the Aua Islands I met the

t At the first graduation ceremony of the new Central Nursing School at Tamavua, Suva, the graduation classes included 28 candidates who had completed three years’ training in general nursing and midwifery, 12 with two years’ training in tuberculosis nursing and two male nurses. Another 22 nurses gradu ated from the Lautoka Hospital Training School. Nearly all the nurses are Fijian girls.

U Mr. E. K Laws, Commissioner of Police, Fiji, left for England on leave in May. The Deputy Com missioner (Mr. R. O. Hassall) is acting as Commissioner and Mr.

H. W. Halstead is acting as Deputy Commissioner.

Aua dancing girls.