DENTAL STUDENT FROM SARAWAK
TWO YEARS’ COURSE IN NEW ZEALAND (New Zealand Press Association; WELLINGTON, August 29. The first student from Sarawak to come to New Zealand under the Colombo Plan, Miss Au-Yong Wai Khan, arrived bv flying-boat to-day. She is also the first to break with the tradition that Sarawak women should work only as nurses in hospitals if thev leave the home at all. She has come for two years to study dental nursing under the training scheme operated by the Dental Division of the Department of Health. On returning to her native Kuching she will become a nurse inspector and will help to pioneer a school dental service with the aid of a number of girls being trained in Penang by dental officers of the Malayan Government.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26513, 30 August 1951, Page 2
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