Mbarrassment"

[?]Ver Nauruan

Problem

view held by some members of Trusteeship Council is causing rrassment to the three countries i together hold Nauru in trust le United Nations — Britain, Aus and New Zealand.

I view is that as Nauru is a rusteeship, it is not proper that auru’s phosphate should go to British Phosphate Commission ic benefit mostly of British agri e. It is argued that all nations ing fertiliser should have an claim to the Nauru product. : exceedingly valuable deposits iuru (then German) and Ocean >h) islands (then estimated at iO million tons) were discovered after 1900; and from 1906 to they were worked by the Anglo an Pacific Phosphate Company. sr World War I, the British, ilian and New Zealand Govern bought that company’s interests ,500,000, and then handed over •eration of the enterprise to the i Phosphate Commission. The shared 42-42-16 per cent, in the of the two islands (Nauru and ). to 1960, about 25,000,000 tons osphatic rock had been taken Nauru alone. iru will next be discussed by usteeship Council in June, when fives the report of the recent g Mission. Australia will be mted by Mr. Dudley Mc r, of the Department of Terri sport from Nauru in May said he Nauruan Workers Associ lad, on its own initiative, taken iprecedented step of bringing Australia its own adviser on arbitration to speak on the ans’ behalf to the Administra n a new basic wage. The ad- Mr. Baker, will stay with the Chief. The Nauruans seek im wages and conditions. k has commenced by the BPC

£U-million project of housing

her amenities on Nauru. Pre ted houses will be shipped from lia; there will be new stores, ge, running water. Nauru’s i “Old Chinatown”, feature of life for 30 years, will close to make way for the new im lents. (See also p. 65.)