Gilbertese Go to

Anned

Gration

Gilbertese Go to Gizo

IE first wave of a planned

migration of 120 Gilbertese

n their overcrowded home

nds to Gizo, Western Solo

is, will take place before the of this year. ie first wave of 30 adults, mostly will establish gardens and porary houses. Nine months r, 48 settlers will arrive; and i months after them the re ader of the 120 to make a anced community of men, ten and children.” to the government sment on the migration, Gizo ad was selected “after full con ration of all the factors in -3d.” The Government statement on: ’here is ample Crown Land lable both for the present me and for its extension later ie settlement proves successful, areas selected are on the same id as the administrative head ters of the Western District and be under the close supervision he District Commissioner and staff. The village sites have [uate water supplies nearby and comparatively free from mos- Des. The settlers, who come i a non-malarial area, will be n prophylactic doses of anti irial drugs.

'here are sufficient planted coco available to meet the immedi requirements of the settlers, groves will be planted and old es rehabilitated in order to pro them at a later date with a income from copra production, cultural land will be sufficient the settlers’ needs and fish is tiful. Casual and regular em inent are available to the ers nearby at Gizo Station.” izo is a very tiny island, and the Solomons, this and adjacent ids are reasonably well popu i. It seems extraordinary, there that the migrants are to be ded into it when there is so ti unused land elsewhere in the ip. i the other hand—the settle t will be under the benevolent of Administration and will con ently have some advantages a settlement abandoned to the tion of some of the bigger ids. igadier H. Flaxman, retiring i his post as British Resident missioner in the New Hebrides, rted for Europe aboard the >ageries liner Tahitien late