[?]Nauru Reborn

The small phosphate island of u, 26 miles south of the equator, %ow almost recovered from the *ic pounding it received at the s of Japanese, German and dean bombs during the war.

DAY, extensive rebuilding and xpansion plans are nearing ompletion, and the island hopes 3 producing 1,600,000 tons of phate a year by 1961. pincers are now building a d cantilever loading plant with Dacity of 3,000 tons an hour— peed of loading is essential at u, where ships have no protec from the weather and the ings are amazingly deep, v and colourful communities sprung up on Nauru since the -new homes for European staff a big housing programme for 5,000 Asians and islanders who the deposits. iro cement is easily the most lar building material on Nauru ise of the humid, salt atmos- 3 —and one big Melbourne fibro ifacturer has done record busi there. 3 top photo, showing clearly the Df the island, was taken by an dean bomber during the war, after it had unloaded a parcel Dmbs on what was then Jap -3 territory. Other photos, taken itly, show the non-European mg scheme, and the MV I ter loading phosphate from a cantilever.

Photo: James Hardie and Co.