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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1956Vol. XXVI, No.11

norial Maternity Hospital

p. 67 · Read in the full issue

At Teop

E late Rev. D. C. Alley, a pre var Methodist missionary at reop, Bougainville, NG, and one he victims of the Montevideo u sinking in 1942, has a memorial is former mission territory. It e maternity annexe of the Don r Memorial Hospital at Kekesu. hospital was built and opened 152 to replace mission buildings â– oyed during the war years, but

the maternity annexe was first used in August, 1955.

Sister Rewa Williamson, a New Zealand nursing sister, who is train ing native nurses at this hospital, has praised the work of two native carpenters who put up the maternity annexe with a little supervision from the Rev. G. G. Carter, the present missionary at Teop. These car penters, Vasupeori and Kaokaku, were trained during post-war years by two New Zealand carpenters who spent some years erecting mission

buildings on Bougainville.-

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