No Snags Expected In

Setting Up New

Councils On Nauru

"No complications" are expected in setting up Legislative and Executive Councils on Nauru by next January, according to Mr. R. S. Swift, First Assistant Secretary of the Australian Department of Territories.

Mr. Swift said this in Port Moresby early in August after visiting Nauru to discuss the establishment of the councils.

Others who attended the talks were the Administrator of Nauru, Mr. R. S. Leydin, members of the Nauru Local Council led by Head Chief Hammer Deßoburt, a re presentative of the Australian Attorney-General's Department, two other members of the Department of Territories, and Mr. K. E. Walker, of Sydney, who has been acting as economic adviser to the Nauruans.

"The talks were very successful, and we've reached the stage where we are certain the timetable for setting up the councils by next January can be met," Mr. Swift said.

Legislation to enable the councils to be established will probably come before the Australian Parliament soon. Also expected soon is an an nouncement on the composition of a committee to study the possibility of rehabilitating Nauru's worked-out phosphate lands by shipping soil to the island.