Banabans Settle Down On

Fiji Island

Satisfaction with the condition of the Banabans who were transferred from Ocean Island to Rabi Island, in Fiji, after the war, was expressed re cently by Sir Albert Ellis, NZ, repre sentative on the British Phosphate Com mission.

Sir Albert said that he spent a week at Rabi Island, now the home of Ocean Islanders, who had been displaced by phosphate workings. “We had an en thusiastic reception,” he added. “Probably no more suitable island in the Pacific could be found for the Ocean Islanders.

It is very fertile, and twelve times the size of their former home.”