ADMINISTRATION OF NAURU.
BRITISH PROTECTION FAVORED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Melbourne, Dec. 29. Mr. W. M. Hughes has received a memorandum signed by the head and twelve other chiefs at Nauru Island defending the present administration of the island. The memorandum refers to statements by persons in authority that the interests of the Nauruans are not being so well looked after under British as under German rule, and replies to these statements that the Nauruans are grateful for all the administration has done to advance the interests of their people. They are specially grateful to the League of Nations for placing them under the protection of so great a nation as Britain.
The chiefs add: “We have far greater freedom now than under German rule, and it is doubtful whether the people of other small countries enjoy such freedom as ours.”
The memorandum compares British methods concerning their property interests, and the improving of their social and moral welfare with the previous German tyrannical exploitation, and expresses the hope that in the near future the island may become part of the Great Empire.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1922, Page 5
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182ADMINISTRATION OF NAURU. Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1922, Page 5
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