[?]Ood Supplies For

Isolated Tikopia

REPORTS that Tlkopia (a Poly t nesian outlier of the British Solomon Islands) was neg ated and hungry brought swift ply from the responsible body— gh Commission for Western icific.

Early 1952, Tikopia was battered a storm and affected by a DUght. Food supplies, to avert a mine, were sent in April and in ly. The new High Commissioner ;ited the isolated island in igust, found the food situation d, and sent more supplies.

'n November, being anxious about iopia and the obvious over pulation (there are some 2,000 aple in less than five square les) the HC sent an officer with dical supplies, to inquire into the >sibilities of re-settlement. He ind gardens flourishing and the d position improved.

Jut another great storm in ,rch, 1953, again partially de- Dyed the gardens, and further »plies from the Administration •e landed there on March 16.