Hospital
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Cool Air for Lae Hospital
AFTER delay that ran almost to years, the new hospital at Lae, New Guinea, appears now to be within measurable distance of get ting its air-conditioning plant.
Official explanation of the delay is that there are only two suppliers of air-conditioning plant in Australia and these have been so busy on the home front they have had no time to spare for New Guinea work.
Local rumour in Lae was that piping already installed for the air conditioning equipment was of the wrong size.
The whole matter appears now to have been resolved, however. In March, two technicians from Mech.
Engineering, NG, which firm had sub-contracted from Yorkaire, Syd ney, to do the job, arrived and com pleted the installation of units and duct work.
The electrical work was in pro gress in April, undertaken by a con tractor from Sydney, and all that is needed now is an engineer from Yorkaire to arrive and test the units and charge them with refrigerant. t Dr. and Mrs. Alec Larson, and daughter, left Rarotonga by the Waitemata on March 25, and are travelling to the UK via Canada.
Dr. Larson is returning home after completing his term as AMO at Rarotonga hospital.