Colony

Criticism Of G. And E.

A FTER serving for a year as Chief CTL Clerk in the Resident Com missioner’s office, and as officer n charge of police and prisons, at rarawa, headquarters of the Gilbert ind Ellice Colony, Mr. Reginald Stuart returned to Australia in November. In the last seven years, Hr. Stuart has lived also in Eng and, Germany, and Tanganyika.

Mr. Stuart said he had been 'profoundly shocked and disap >ointed” by what he had seen in he G. and E. Colony, and he was sending a special report to the British Government about con litions there.

Mrs. Stuart praised the native •eople. but stated that “the handful if Europeans on Tarawa are, with t few exceptions, a disgrace to their ace.”

Mr, and Mrs. Stuart are now re iding in Sydney.