Islanders
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RHS Awards to Ellice Islanders
TWO Ellice Islanders, Lipine and Tanielu, were recently awarded the medals of the Royal Humane Society for saving the life of another Ellice Islander off Nauru Island on December 9, 1953.
The men, employees of British Phosphate Commission, were in the surf endeavouring to salvage a valu able mooring buoy which had broken adrift in heavy weather, when a man named Matiava was swept out to sea.
Lipine, a constable of the Nauru Police Force, received the Society’s Silver Medal, and Tanielu the Bronze Medal. t New Caledonia’s three soap factories together produced 317 tons of soap in 1954, according to figures just published. The in dustry is totally protected by im port barriers.