Memories sought
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The Amelia Earhart search team is anxious to talk with anyone who lived on Nikumaroro (in Kiribati) during its brief settlement (1938-1964).
TIGHAR is particularly interested in contacting Aram Tamai, who probably has interesting memories of settlement. If alive, Mr Tamaia is in his sixties or seventies. He is believed to have studied at the King George V School of Tarawa In the 19305, worked for Gerald B.
Gallagher, a British Colonial Official in charge of the Phoenix islands Settlement Scheme in 1940-41, and subsequently Acting Magistrate of Nikumaroro in 1949. Later he left the island for a better-paying job, per haps at the airfield at Canton, in the Solomons, or in Tarawa. Anyone with information should call PlM’s David North, collect, in the US at (703) 241 1724, or write to 3113 N.
Kensington St, Arlington, Va 22207.