Uranium from Phosphate
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Rock
OF interest to Nauru, Ocean and Makatea Islands is the announce ment from the US Atomic Energy Commission that a plant for the re covery of uranium from phosphate rock has been opened in Illinois.
Few details are given. The plant is operated in conjunction with a normal superphosphate manufactur ing works, the phosphate coming from Florida.
Governor Petitbon and Monsieur Pouvana Oopa, Deputy for French Oceania, returned to Tahiti on Oc tober 29 by TEAL aircraft.
Sign Of The Times: The Ban
on the export of new cars from Fiji has been lifted. The ban was imposed last year when some Fiji residents began taking their cars to New Zealand and selling them at high prices. Cars were easily ob tainable in Fiji and almost unpro curable in NZ, Some residents were able to sell their cars in NZ, return to Fiji, buy another new one and still make a handsome profit on the deal. The ban was enforced when the war stockpiling in UK began to affect Fiji supplies also. Now. how ever, the position has improved con siderably—both in Fiji and NZ.