US Anthropologists in NG

t The Hon. Ahomee, Governor of Vava’u, Tonga, has given a stretcher

trolley for use in transporting hos pital patients from their wards to the operating theatre or treatment rooms. This valuable piece of equipment was formally presented by the Governor to Her Majesty Queen Salote, who has had it sent to the recently opened Sione Gnu Hospital in Vava’u.

Photographed at Rabaul in May, before they left to spend six months in a native village at West Nakanai, New Britain, are American anthropologists Mr. C. Valentine and his wife.

A short while ago they spent one period of six months in the same district doing research work, and then went to the National Uni versity, Canberra. They expect to return through Rabaul from West Nakanai in November.

Photo: C. H. Meen.