Experimental Farm for Nauru
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Nauru
TO foster greater agricultural activity for the production of food, and to provide occupation for the people of the Island who live in comparative idleness (thanks to substantial incomes from the exploitation of the phosphate de posits) an experimental farm is to be established at Nauru.
This was announced by Canberra at the end of April. There is only about 300 acres of land in Nauru suitable for coconuts, and about the same area that could be em ployed in other cropping activities.
The experimental farm will serve also to train young men to fit into some other Island environment when the time eventually comes for evacuation of the population when the phosphate supplies are ex hausted. The Australian Govern ment is continuing the search for a suitable future home for the people.