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Betio Is. Capital of GEIC
A LTHOUGH the office of the [\ Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands 3olony is still at Bairiki islet, farawa, the plan to re-establish Jetio islet, four miles from Bairiki, is the Colony’s capital, is now ilmost completed.
Betio was the main centre until he Japanese invasion. After the var, due partly to the devastation it Betio and to the miliary build ngs and facilities that existed on )ther islets of the Tarawa atoll, the settlement was widely dispersed, to the great inconvenience of every body. f To-day Betio is the site of the District Administration, the Radio Communications Station, the Meteorological Office, the Head Office of the Wholesale Society, the headquarters of the Co-operative Societies Officer and the head quarters of the Tangitang Co operative Union.