Samoans beat
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A reduction in food prices in the local market in American Samoa in 1976 was rather a remarkable achievement in times of inflation when a fairly rapid upward trend is the norm. The 1976 report for the Department of Agriculture said food production increased in spite of a reduction in staff and budget.
Ken R. Winter, formerly services superintendent with the Nauru Phosphate Commission, has been appointed personnel manager of the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter in New Zealand.
Ken and Velma Winter were on Nauru for a total of eight years in the period 1961-73. When they left, Ken was services superintendent with the Nauru Phosphate Commis sion responsible for Nauru’s power generation and reticulation, the country’s telephone system and nearly all of the mechanical and electrical engineering functions as sociated with the Phosphate Com mission.
Mr Ken R. Winter