British Grants
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Money From 25
Four territories in the Western Pacific—Fiji, the New Hebrides the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and the British Solomons Islands—will share a total of £341,900 sterling from 25 grants made under the British Colonial Development and Welfare Act.
The grants are among 177 approved avSir ebr £^9 an 3^ Mar ,e h i mak i ng avauaoie 4,979,302 sterling for schemes to help Britain’s overseas territories. So far this year. Colonial
Development and Welfare grants and loans total £9,727,177 sterling.
The largest of the grants to the Western Pacific area was £106,872 sterling for the establishment of a central teachers’ training college in Vila, New Hebrides (see elsewhere).
Among ten grants, totalling £174,798 sterling for Fiji, were £56,270 tow'ards the overseas {scholar ship scheme and £39,264 for the student farming scheme at Navuso Agricultural School.
Eight grants approved for the Gil bert and Ellice group totalled £42,524, including £11,345 for an extension to the Teachers’ Training College, Tarawa.