WOMAN'S LONELY OUTPOST
TEACHING ON TINY ISLAND For 10 years on the tiny island of Bunana, in the Solomons, Miss E. Saftrom, teacher with the Church of England Melanesian Mission, has lived a lonely life with another white woman teacher and 35 native girls. When she arrived in Sydney a few days ago on furlough she said that she liked the life, and despite hurricanes and earthquakes, which made existence at times risky, she was never afraid. The native girls, said Miss Saftrom. were taught the rudiments of homecraft and a little nursing. When their training was completed they were able to go back to the villages and nurse the sick. In the event of desperate illness communication with other islands was made in a. dinghy, rowed several miles across open water by tho native girls.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21319, 21 October 1932, Page 11
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136WOMAN'S LONELY OUTPOST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21319, 21 October 1932, Page 11
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