The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1955Vol. XXVI, No.1

WHO Nursing Seminar Held at Suva in July

p. 56 · Read in the full issue

t A new weather observation station has been established in American Samoa with a full-time meteorological staff. t A $4,000 Yale-Bishop Museum

Fellowship for 1955-56 has b< awarded to Dr. Robert C. Coon of Auckland Institute and Musev to make a botanical study of taro and the sweet potato Polynesia.

Delegates from South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands gathered) Suva in July for the WHO nursing seminar. Among the entertainments was a reception gi[?] by Chinese residents of Suva for their compatriots. This picture shows Mr. C. C. Cheng (ext[?] left) talking with Mr. Kiwan Li, Administration and Finance Officer, Manila; Mrs. Ki Boon (Korea): Miss Betty Honson (Suva); Miss Tao-Chen Ye (Formosa): Mrs. E. R. Fong (Brunei); [?] Clara Ko (Hongkong); and Miss Wilhelmina Tan (Sarawak).

— Photo: Public Relations Office,