Move To Set Legislature

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Move To Set Legislature In US Trust Territory

A special six-day session of the Council of Micronesia was opened in Saipan on March 19 to make recommendations for the establishment of a Territorial legislature for the United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

PHE Council of Micronesia is a 12member body composed of dele tes from the six administrative dis icts of the Trust Territory, which nbraces the Caroline, Marshall and lariana Islands.

The Council represents the 80,980 jople of the Trust Territory and rves in an advisory capacity to the igh Commissioner, Mr. M. W. oding.

Opening the Council’s session, Mr. oding said that most members had :clared at the last Council meeting Koror in October that the Trust srritory should have a territorial gislature and that it was resolved at a committee should begin work i the structure and nature of such body.

“Both measures had my support,” r. Coding added, “and I have ex essed to the United Nations Trus eship Council my confidence that a rritorial legislature could be estab hed by 1965.

“This session is a natural step for ard in the planning of such a body, ut of it should emerge your recom endations regarding the legislature.”

Mr, Coding said that the Council

of Micronesia, established in 1956, had “steadily improved in its ability to understand a wide range of Trust Territory problems” and that it con ducted its proceedings in “an orderly, deliberative manner with a free ex change of opinion and interplay of ideas”.

“While originally the delegates were all appointed,” Mr. Coding said, “today most have been popularly elected. I am confident that the progress which has been made will continue.”

Education Conference A week earlier, Mr. Coding opened a Territory-wide education conference in Saipan at which he said that he looked forward to the time—which he hoped would be soon—when the entire direction of the Trust Terri tory’s educational system would be in the hands of the local people.

He also stressed the importance of: • Accelerating primary education with a positive approach. • Implementing a policy to use English as the medium of instruction in elementary schools. (over)

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Mr. Tang Mow, a vWeil-known busi [?]essman of Wewak, [?]ecently made a rip to the US, [?]apan, Hongkong [?]nd Formosa. In [?]aipeh, Formosa's [?]apital, Mr. Tang [?]ow (right) met [?]r. Chen Sing, [?]ice - President of [?]ationalist China.

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