'Devoted

Honour For

Work'

A doctor who has conducted

an extensive campaign against

tuberculosis in Fiji was among the five Fiji men who received awards in the New Year Honours. He is Dr. Gerard Denis Murphy, who received the Order of the British Empire for his services to medicine and

public health in Fiji.

Dr. Murphy has been physician in charge of the specialist tuber culosis hospital at Tamavua. His citation said in part that “the fact that a major scourge is now largely defeated is mainly due to his de voted, sustained work.”

Other 1970 awards

Mr. Eddie Yan Kong Wong, a prominent businsesman at Lautoka and a former Mayor of Lautoka, be came a Member of the British Empire.

He is a member of the Town Plan ning Board, the Divisional Fair Rents Tribunal, the Hotel and Catering Trades Wages Council of the Fiji Electricity Authority and the Lau toka Rural Local Authority.

The MBE was awarded also to Mr.

Fazal Khan, who spent 43 of the 45

years of his government service in the Lands, Mines and Survey De partment. He spent two years on the Native Land Trust Board.

The Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service was awarded to Superintendent Bernard David Sutton, who has served in the Fiji Police Force for 17 years, and the British Empire Medal (Military) was awarded to Sergeant Rupeni Tuimavana, who is in charge of the Fiji Military Forces engineering section.

A much deserved MBE went to Mrs. Myrtle Marion Ferris. She had only recently returned to Australia from Pitcairn Island with her hus band, Pastor Ferris, of the SDA Mission, and their 11-year-old daughter.

On Pitcairn she was the chief and only medical officer. Pastor Ferris will now retire after a lifetime of missionary work in the Pacific but Mrs. Ferris is doing further medical work at the Dr. Charles Harrison Memorial Hospital at the Seventh da y Adventist establishment at Cooranbong, NSW.

Other honours went to Atau Waukave, vice-president of the Local Government Council, Goroka, P-NG (OBE); Hera Ganiga, former per sonnel officer of the Papuan Medical College and Miss Dorothy Edith Shaw, chief plant pathologist of P-NG Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries (MBE’s). Sergeant First Class Bus, P-NG Police, Manus Island and Michael Fabila, of Port Moresby, for services to sport

(Bem’S).

Dr. Murphy.