TONGAN MEDICAL GRADUATE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27224, 16 December 1953, Page 10

TONGAN MEDICAL GRADUATE

FIRST FROM OTAGO UNIVERSITY “The Press’ 1 Special Service DUNEDIN. D ec< ’ rn ? er J,L When he graduated from the vwsv University Medical School last wDr. Sione Tapa became the first 1 a " gan ever to have done so. He spend a year as house surgeon at i Cook Hospital. Gisborne, before turning to Tonga under the Govem ment’s employ. . , Dr. Tapa’s medical career sta™* 1941. when he began a course at the Central Medical in Suva. Fiji. He acquitted so well that the Tongan G<’ ve J nr fLnd decided to send him to New Zea.an to take the full medical course at to® Otago Medical School. th - Before Dr. Tapa could enrol atJP? university he had to go back to sch When he took his schooling in there was no matriculation and it was to gain bis university trance qualification that Dr. Tapa rolled at the Auckland Gram®*. School. He studied there for twy a half years, and at the he gained his matriculation. p>e year he passed the medical interm ate examination at Auckland umw sity College. nr While at the University of Tapa did not fail once in exam®*’ | tions.