Motor Traffic on Nauru
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Nauru, Jan. 4.
THE number of cars on Nauru, includ ing a dozen or more owned by na tives, has greatly increased lately.
Captain Preece has returned with the latest in Ford limousines; Ted Cameron, Stan Marquis, Rev. Welch, Jock Will dridge and Bill Thompson have added to the list with modern English models.
Among the natives, Chief Gaumabwe maintains a new £4OO Ford coupe, and Head Chief Detudamo the latest Eng lish Vauxhall sedan.
Partly on account of the increased car traffic and partly due to the prolonged drought, the local roads are in pretty bad order. In the absence of a European works officer, it seems that the regular maintenance of roads is no particular Administration officer’s business—a situ ation which no doubt soon will be recti fied under the regime of Colonel Chalm ers, who appears to be a man of practi cal mind.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C. McKean, formerly well-known in Fiji, are at present living in Sydney. He has been transferred by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., to the Sydney office, after 29 years in the Colony, his last post being accountant at the Labasa branch.