Modern Quarters For Nauru
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Nauru and Ocean Is.
The British Phosphate Com missioners have awarded a £3,000,000 contract to an Australian firm, E. S.
Clementson Pty. Ltd., the building division of Project Development Corporation Ltd., to build modern living quarters for their workers at Nauru and Ocean Island.
The workers, who come from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and Hong kong, will be accommodated in self contained, three bedroom flats in modern, European-style, two-storey buildings. Each kitchen will have an electric stove, stainless steel sink and built-in cupboards.
Single employees will be accom modated in spacious houses with individual bedrooms and modern messing facilities.
A total of 596 family units will be built on Nauru and 432 units on Ocean Island. There will be 19 housing blocks built on Nauru for single men and 12 on Ocean Island.
Building will start in March, 1963.