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...HOWLETT FIJI VISITORS' BUREAU SUVA Extravagant Devotion? Sir: The Church of England Newspaper has labeled as "rank heresy" the implications it found in our Holy Father's prayer [com posed for the opening of the Marian Year -TIME, Dec. 28]. If the implications were true, it would be heresy. The Pope himself would be the first to denounce idolatry of Mary...
...readers reported that they entertained an average of eleven guests a month in their homes. Undoubtedly many of the guests are presented with slightly thumbed issues of TIME, for three out of five reported that they passed each issue along to friends, relatives or institutions. Reported a reader from Suva, Fiji: "My copy is read by myself and family and then passed on to a number of prominent citizens of Suva and finally finds its way to a coconut plantation for the perusal of the overseers." No copy of TIME, he added, stops circulating while it is still legible enough...
...Francisco-Los Angeles to Honolulu-Canton Island-Suva-Noumea-Auckland...
From Makeshift to McGusty. The Suva Medical School began back in the 1880s with verbal instruction (no textbooks, no laboratories) by the British Medical Officer at Fiji. For the first 40 years it was only a makeshift. In 1928, bulky, energetic Dr. Sylvester Maxwell Lambert, who spent 20 years in the South Pacific for the Rockefeller Foundation, persuaded the Foundation to help. In 1929, the Suva School dedicated a new dormitory and mess hall. Enrollment was increased from 16 to 40, extended to include non-Fijians. In the 1930s, pathological and bacteriological laboratories were added. In 1940 a European nurse...
Last week came news that: 1) the Central Medical School has increased its students to 76, including eight dental students; 2) there are 100 native nurses in training; 3) the Fijian Government now proposes an overall health plan for all the islands, with a base hospital at Suva served by air ambulances from the other islands...