Keep off the grass
p. 53 · Read in the full issue
in Nauru
From a Nauru correspondent Anyone returning to Nauru by sea after an absence is now likely to be staggered by the sight of a disciplined lawn which appears to have grown overnight on traffic islands just up from the boat harbour. The islands themselves are a recent innova tion to control the traffic which formerly wandered about this wide junction in a bewildering manner.
The lawn is the kind of stuff that indoor arenas in the US are being turfed with these days.
It’s plastic! It was imported by an experiment-minded mana ger of the Nauru Co-op., who felt that the island needed some permanent green in the depres singly grey dry season.