AUSTRALIAN GIRLS IN NEW GUINEA

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 97, 20 January 1944, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN GIRLS IN NEW GUINEA

Australian girls are now serving in general and camp hospitals, both over the range in the Buna area and in the Port Moresby area of New Guinea. The controller of the A.A.M.W.S., Lieut.-Colonel May Douglas,' said last month on her return from an inspection visit of the women in her command that they were working hard. Some found climatic conditions trying, but everything possible bad been done for tbeir comfort and well-being, and they were working under the best possible conditions. “The girls love the life,” Lieut.-Colonel Douglas said. “They have very good quarters, mostly tents, but at one hospital over the range they are living in hilts. There are good recreation facilities at all places, good messing arrangements, and the food is good. There are about 100 girls to each general hospital.” Lieut.-Colonel Douglas said there was no malaria among the girls at all, and she attributed this to the extreme care taken iu the Moresby area. The girls needed torch batteries, globes, and unusual tinned foods, such as whitebait. They had plenty of tinned asparagus, tomato juice, and fruit, sweets, chocolate and cigarettes.