Work Begins on P-NG Nursing College

Work has started in Port Moresby on the first stage of a P-NG Medical School—a training college for 300 student nurses. It is being built alongside the Port Moresby Hospital at Taurama, and the first stage will cost more than £348,000. The Common wealth Department of Works, which is supervising the contract, had the task of designing a cei.tre which would train girls aged about 16 coming from native villages and therefore with little contact with Europeans. The centre will be as self-contained as possible.

The college will include three dormitory blocks. Successful tender for the project was Barclay Bros. ( NG ) Ltd. In this picture, Sister J. Drysdale lectures infant nurse welfare trainees at the present nurses’ college, which is part of the hospital.