Nauru Diary

October 1. 1951.

rE Australian representative of the British Phosphate Com mission, Mr. W. M. Webster, with a party from Melbourne paid an inspection visit to Nauru in August.

Dr. G. M. Hayward, BPC Medical Officer, with his family returned from leave in Melbourne on the August Triona; Miss Wheatley, for merly Child Welfare Nurse here, re turned also.

During August three BPC char tered vessels, Triona, Ivybank and Weybank, were all in port on the same day—each vessel was fully loaded with phosphate and got away on the three days following, for either Australia or NZ.

MV Anking in August repatriated 400 Chinese workers who were later replaced by 200 Gilbertese who are now living in the BPC Chinese quarters.

On the same vessel, Mr. L. E.

Cameron arrived from Melbourne to relieve the retiring manager, Mr. R.

B. Kirk.

The small motor vessel Nareau arrived from the Gilberts in early September with Gilbertese visitors.

She took away with her Sgt-Major

Itimaera, senior native officer in the local police force, and left behind an epi demic of colds and flu which rapidly spread throughout the island. It would be gratifying if future visitors from the Gilberts

or Ocean Island who had severe colds were prevented from landing.

Dr. Thomas M. Robinson of the Church of England, and represent ing the Bishop in Polynesia, paid a visit about mid-September.

The Nauruan Tennis Tournament in connection with Commonwealth Jubilee celebrations has been played with interest and en thusiasm—it is the first tennis tournament played among the Nauruans themselves.

THIS ship, shown loading at the Cantilever is the Triadic 11, formerly Levuka, third and latest addition to the BPC fleet.

The cloud of dust, as the phosphate is discharged into the holds of the ship, can be clearly seen.

The BPC has two other ships— Triona II and the Trienza—and charters other vessels.

Triona I, Triadic I and the lux urious Triaster were sunk off Nauru during World War 11. The Trienza is the only survivor of the BPC’s pre-war fleet and, consequently, rendered great service in the re construction and rehabilitation of both Nauru and Ocean Island.