New Commissioner for India
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in Suva
DR. RAJKUMAR, recently ap pointed Commissioner for the Government of India in Fiji, arrived in the Colony in mid- December with his wife and family.
He was welcomed at Nadi Airport by a group of prominent Indian residents.
A new broadcast station to pro vide coverage for the Marshall Is. (also probably well received by night in the Gilberts) was opened at Majuro on October 12, with the call-sign WSZO. Broadcasts will be mainly in Marshallese, but with general musical programmes also.
H Mr. Maynard Neas, Island Affairs Officer at Majuro, Marshall Is., was to visit the Gilberts during January to study administration methods in the British colony. Mr. Neas was to travel aboard MV Baker, which was bound for Suva with medical trainees for the Central Medical School.
The US Trust Territory’s annual report for the year ending June 30, 1953, shows that the Angaur Mining Trust Fund amounts to $777,867, re ceived as royalties on the export of phosphate from that island. The Fund will be distributed annually to the clans who own the land, part to clans not owning land on which mining operations are proceeding, and part to the municipality for civic purposes.