Responsibility of P-NG
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Nauru’S Education
Responsibility of P-NG Director
REVISION and extension of education work on the Trustee ship island of Nauru will follow the recent official visit to Nauru of Mr.
W. C. Groves, Director of Education in Papua-New Guinea. In future, Responsibility for the Nauru educa tion system will lie with the Papua- New Guinea Director.
Mr. Groves spent seven weeks on the job (four of them travelling on British Phosphate Commission ships) and arriving in Australia, en route to Port Moresby, late in August. He was keenly interested in this inspec tion, because he was in charge of Nauru’s education system in 1937- 38, and was able to examine the re sults of his work, 15 years afterwards.
At present, lack of direct com munication between New Guinea and Nauru might make supervision from Port Moresby difficult. But there have been indications that the occasional air service, run on charter by Qantas, between Lae-Honiara- Nauru, with planned extension to Tarawa, may become established and regular.
The small native community in
Nauru—generally Polynesian in character—is probably the best educated in the South Pacific. The natives are well endowed by the royalties from the Nauru phosphate workings, and this wealth is freely used in both primary and secondary education.