But Fewer P-NG
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Badges For Natives,
Parties For Europeans
But Fewer P-NG Students For South
IT is interesting to see amor the hundreds of school-child returning to Papua-New Gull from Australia for the holidays sprinkling of native boys wear their Southern school badges.
Most of the sophisticated Eu pean teen-agers discard all set insignias and uniforms and plu into a round of parties. But native boy in conversation v his one-talk, retains his school with obvious pride. It is his ba —his symbol.
Education su b s i d y-examinal results, just published, suggest t Territory children —whose repi tion for brightness is well kno and usually proved when they South —appear to be falling by wayside.
For the year 1957, a total of students of all races will be grar secondary education subsidies, c< pared with 171 the previous yes and this on an increasing popi tion.
The following comparisons interesting::
Comparative figures from '
1955 examinations were 97 E peans, 50 Asians and 24 M Race granted subsidies.
The subsidy for Europeans Asians is £145 per annum, plus turn air fare to Australia. M race students get the same, £2OO, based on a means test.
Native scholarship holders (5 1956) receive school fees, air f and all incidental expenses residential schools in Queenslar The decline in the numbei Asians and Mixed Race stud granted subsidies for 1957 is mainly to the fact that last was the first time these stud could sit for subsidy examinal and, in consequence, there ws larger number of the reqi scholastic standard.
Included in the 15 Territory m students who returned from Central Medical School at Suva five who now have completed 1 course. They are: Maori Kiki, Kerema, labors Assistant.
Jack de la Cruz, Lae, Assis Health Inspector.
Thomas Tumu, Sohano, Assis Health Inspector.
Gran Passed Failed Subsi Europeans . .. 81 18 7£ Asians .. . . 28 20 22 Mixed Race . 11 17 1( — — 120 55 Ill
Levi Matare, Kavieng, Assistant alth Inspector, Wesley Tomangula, Rabaul, Assist t Health Inspector. :t is expected that there will be native or mixed-race students jout 36 boys and 4 girls) at the va School in 1957. The course ;re for Assistant Medical Prac ioner is 5 years, for Dentistry, alth Inspector and Laboratory sistants, from 3 to 4 years, and ■ Nurses 3| years.
Ledical School For P-Ng
|R. JOHN GUNTHER, Director ' of Public Health, has announced plans for the erection of a ntral Medical School in Port iresby during the current financial ir. fhe school will be erected at urama, about four miles from >resby, in the vicinity of the new tive Hospital. fhe centre will be used for train ' native students in special fields, d will save the necessity of send ; medical students to Suva for ;ir training, as at present. [Ed. Note: It will be noted from ! above list of graduations from “ Central Medical School, Suva, it the students who have com sted their courses do not include y Assistant Medical Practitioners, is well know that P-NG students the CMS have great initial ficulties to overcome in their lack adequate English. Probably a 100 l at Port Moresby would over ne some difficulties by not set ig such a high standard as the JS, however, students who now ve the privilege of going to Suva ve the benefit of learning how e other native communities of the cific live. Fiji has a lot that it n teach New Guinea—and the iIS was one way in which this \s done).