Status Quo For Nauruans

Nauruans are satisfied with the way their affairs are being managed, one must conclude from the elections of March 11, in which all nine members of the Nauru Local Govern ment Council were returned to office.

Five were returned unop posed, and of the others, only Councillor James Bop, who , when wearing his other hat, is Minister for Finance of the Republic, was even slightly pressed in the ballot. He was

voted in by 74 votes to 60 over challenger Harold Jeremiah.

The importance of the Local Government Council lies largely in the fact that it is that body and not the parlia ment which has the oversight of Nauru's various commercial enterprises.

Parliament underwrites the council's borrowings for such matters, but does not have a say in their direction.