The Cotton-Picking
p. 127 · Read in the full issue
Nauruans
One thing the Nauruans can rest assured about is that all sorts of Australians, of high and low degree, have interested them selves in seeing them comfort ably resettled when their phos phate runs out.
People write letters to the newspapers about it and one—in “The Sydney Morning Herald” — advocated that they should “share in the newly established cotton-growing industry in the Narrabri-Wee Waa district of NSW” where a new irrigation scheme is helping closer settle ment.
Most Australians simple souls—honestly believe that they would be doing something by moving over to make room for the Nauruans on a venture like this, not realising that the Nauruans are not pioneering types but have been educated to become white-collar workers, leaving the hard yakka of digging phosphate to someone else.
Anything less likely to appeal to the Nauruans than being pitch forked into cotton-growing in NSW’s wild west, would be hard to imagine.