Fanning Is.
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300 Recruits For
From Our Own Correspondent
Tarawa, Feb. 20.
THE Acting Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony, His Honour R. H. Garvey, M.A., left Tarawa in January, ner Burns Philp (S.S.) Co.’s M.V. “Moamoa” on a visit of inspection to Washington, Christmas and Fanning Islands, and is due back bv return “Moamoa in late February or early March.
The “Moamoa” was specially fitted out on this occasion as a recruiting ship, in connection with the Fanning Island Plantation Co.’s triennial labour trans portation between the Gilbert Group and Fanning Island. A full complement of about 300 native labour recruits left the Gilberts by the “Moamoa” in charge of the Fanning Island Labour Officer, Mr.
Hugh Greig, to take the places of the time-expired labour at Fanning Island, awaiting repatriation to their homes in the Gilbert Islands on the return trip of the same vessel.
The recruiting and repatriation con tract occupies about a month, the voy age between Tarawa and Fanning Island taking about 12 or 13 days each way.