Phosphate Corp.
pp. 37-134 · Read in the full issue
Head Of Nauru
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Mr. T. A. Adams, who has been Australian representative for Nauru since its independence on January 31 last year, has been appointed man aging director of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation, which will take over the control of the phosphate industry from the British Phosphate Com mission on July 1, 1970. His appoint ment has been long expected.
Mr. L. J. Lockie has been ap pointed representative in Australia and New Zealand for Nauru, based in Melbourne.
Mr. Lockie for the past eight years has been general manager of the North Queensland Tobacco Growers Co-operative Ltd., Mareeba, one of the largest primary producer co operatives in Queensland. Before that (from 1957-1960) he was secretary of the Western Samoa Trust Estates Corporation, in Apia.
As Nauru Government representa tive in Australia, Mr. Lockie also becomes chairman of the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust, succeeding Mr. R. S. Leydin.
Mr. Adams, before his appoint ment by the Nauruan Government, held many senior positions with the British Phosphate Commissioners, the last as deputy general manager, in charge of the Christmas Island development.
Earlier he was assistant general
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Mr. T. A. Adams
manager (production) and chief engineer. He was also Ocean Island manager from 1951-1954 and had previously been on Nauru for a number of years as civil engineer and assistant Nauru manager.
Mr. Adams remains a member of the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust.
Other members, apart from Mr.
Lockie, are Mr. L. J. Dooling, former Victorian manager of the Common wealth Trading Bank, and Mr.
Theodore Moses, a Nauruan member of the Republic’s Melbourne office staff.
President Deßoburt, of Nauru, was to return to the republic from his overseas visit in time for the first anniversary of independence on January 31.
The principal reason for his trip was to attend the launching of Nauru's first trading vessel, the 5,700 ton general cargo and phosphate carrier, Eigamoiya (see pp. 28, 109).
President Deßoburt made his first official visit to the United States on his way home from the launching and made brief stopovers in New York and San Francisco with his wife, daughter Jeanette, and wife’s sister Winnie Harris, who attends school in Melbourne with Jeanette.
Also in the party was Mrs. Eliza Detudamo, wife of the Minister Assisting the President..
The president was to fly home via Majuro, in the Marshalls, and several official guests from the Marshalls will accompany him on the Fiji Airways charter.