[?]sphate Digging on Anguar

to Cease

NGUAR, in the Western Caro- L lines, only important source of phosphate in the Pacific apart )m the Big Three —Nauru, Ocean, d Makatea—is ceasing production nost immediately, in order to pre :ve the remaining agricultural ids for the use of the native in bitants.

After World War 11, the Japanese m which had been operating ere pre-war was allowed to return d operate on a royalty basis. The tire output has gone to Japan.

Anguar is now part of the US ust Territory of Micronesia.

Jf The Rev. Sau Faupula, a Min ister of the Tongan Church who, for the last nine months has been travelling round Australia, visited Hobart, Tas., in November. He told Church congregations throughout Australia about the Tongan Church and the life and customs of the Tongan people. He has now returned to Tonga.

A new children’s playground was opened in Honiara, BSIP, on August 28 by Lady Stanley, wife of the High Commissioner. Sir Robert Stanley also attended the opening.

The playground, which includes swings, a sandpit, a slide runway, see-saws, volley-ball court and a

dolls’ house, was built for childr< of “The Home Makers” —a grot of native women from Malaita, tl Western Solomons, Guadalcan and other districts, who meet regi larly and are helped by Europee women in Honiara to make bett homes.

Last year the children of Honiara were entertained at a special excursion on t[?] Tenaru Company’s railway. (See story opposite.)