FUTURE DOCTORS

Grey River Argus, 26 January 1943, Page 3

FUTURE DOCTORS

Aid for Students INTEREST IN SCHEME. WELLINGTON, Jan. 25. An examination of some of the letters he had received from applicants for the medical and dental bursaries recently offered bv the Government revealed the need for such a scheme, said the Minister of Health, th Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer. It was obvious that there were some brilliant students desirous of taking either, the medical or dental course at the university who would be unable to do so without Government assistance. A desirable number of applications had been already received, but as the closing date was January 26 it was not yet possible to estimate the i number that would coma in. The number of dental bursar'... has been fixed at 15, but the number of medical bursaries to be awarded will not be fixed until all the applications have been received. The bursaries in each case amount to 170 a year, plus an additional £4O boarding allowance where a student is compelled to live away from home. The dental bursaries will be tenable for four and a-half years and the medical bursaries for five years. The Minister said that the amount of the bursaries was not intended to cover the whole cost of embarking upon the medical or dental courseThe Rehabilitation Board intended to offer assistance on a much more generous scale to ex-servicemen to enable them to undertake a professional course. _ lielmotti, Italian National Councillor, broadcasting, stated: ‘Tripolitania was for us a svmbol of a new life, and a centre of hope and pride. Its loss has pained all Italian hearts.” Left Only Hard Bread ITALIAN PRISONERS’ COMPLAINT. (Rec. 11.15) LONDON, Jan. 24. “They can jump in the sea for all wp care,” said Italian prisoners to a British Associated Press correspondent outside Tripoli. They cursed the Germans for leaving them without transport, and stated they were glad they had been made prisoners The Germans ate all the good food and left them only hard bread.. Toll of Submarines MILLION tons IN MEDITERRANEAN. NAVY’S AID. > (Rec. 12.30 a "LONDON, Jan. 24. Admiral Harwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, revealed that a British submarine was sent to the bottom, just as Tripoli fell.. Admiral Harwood emphasised that submarines alone had destroyed a million tons of shipping in the Mediterranean during the war. “Now it is full speed ahead in the battle for Tunis,” he said. The Navy is already busy dynamiting wrecks blocking the entrance to Tripoli harbour. We will presently be employing the supply system used at Bardia, Tobruk and Benghazi before salvage crews cleared the ports. The tempoi - ' arv system is that advanced beach survey parties choose appropriate units then mobile beach parties occupy them, to unload suplies' as soon as landing craft shove their noses m RO.W. beaCh ’ " RUGBY. Jan. 23. The part played by the Navy in the campaign was of the greatest impo - ance A Cairo correspondent comments that the brilliant victories of the Eighth Army would never have been achieved without the equally brilliant and patient work of the Navy. Before the El Alamein battle, parties were detailed and waiting in Alexandria for dispatch to Solium, Bardia, Tobruk, Benghazi and Tripoli successively. Minesweepers were ready to clear the captured ports. Petrol and water were landed almost before the dust of the enemy’s retreat had settled along the line of march. Invasion craft were used by the Navy as “maids of all work” for advanced supply parties. The Navy’s part, however, was principally as an offensive weapon Sweeps were made bv cruisers and destroyers, and mosquito craft often went ashore to take part in the attack on the retreating enemy, and kept the coastal defences in a constant state of jitters. December’s bag for the Eastern Mediterranean was two destroyers 16 supply ships, one U-boat, one armed merchant cruiser, and one schooner sunk and two destroyers and 19 supply ships badly damaged.