$32,000 more than the actual e:

penditure of the entire Marine Di partment (including the operatioi of ships) in 1971. No question w i raised as to how much of the loi was due to unsuitability of vessels ; the fleet, how much was due to b£ management, how much was due i GEIDA’s tremendous “overheads”.

Nearly everyone agrees with on education policy: that young peopi should be prepared for their adu life in their own environment. Th is all very well. However, nearly £ primary schools are staffed by gradi ates of the Tarawa Teachers Trainii College which is almost wholly staffs by foreigners who knew very litt or nothing about atoll environme: until they arrived in the territory.

The two government seconda: schools at Tarawa are likewise staffs almost wholly by expatriates. Despii heavy investment in this area, tl degree of failure at the schools ai among those sent for further ed cation overseas is disproportionate high. Discipline is lagging; it is gene ally agreed that the mission schoc are better organised. Yet a fat pe centage of the taxpayer’s $ goes support those schools every year.

The Development Plan began wii this passage: . . . then came the voice a thii time saying, “Nareau, how c* you remain floating in emptine: alone and without thought? A you not tired of just floatim Do you not want to do somethii for yourself?” A third time Narei: marvelled to hear the voice c out to him, and he searched L emptiness to discover who h;j called him. He opened H eyes and shook himself to maj sure he was not dreaming. H stretched himself and stood • his feet to cast off his drowsines until he was wide awake.

When he was wide awaH Nareau thought to himself, “Ho childish I have been. I have on just realised, this very momei; that I have been calling out n own name. Here I have be; searching for the voice that calll me but in fact it was really m self!” Nareau, therefore, kept I eyes wide open, and gathering I wits about him he decided think. . .

The fact is that legend tells us th Nan Nareau was actually a thinkii man because he created the Tungas from Makin to Arorae. The mn who should be stirred to think a Nareau’s descendants of today, t politicians, who are going to tas over from Nareau in managing as directing the affairs of not only TV garu but Tuvalu as well.