Geic People Move
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Britain Happy To See
The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Duncan Sandys, said in the House of Commons on July 20 that £480,000 had been provided for an economic plan for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony for the period ending March, 1966.
Of this, £185,000 would be spent on improving the coconut industry, fisheries development and pigs' and poultry improvement plan.
Mr. Sandys added that as there were inevitable limits to the economic potential of small, scattered islands, the voluntary resettlement of as many of the people as could be absorbed elsewhere, where opportunities were better, was being “actively pursued".