ADMINISTRATION OF NAURU.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 30 December 1922, Page 7

ADMINISTRATION OF NAURU.

MELBOURNE, Dec. 29.. Mr 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. We have far greater freedom now "than under German rule, and it is doubtful whether the people of other sriiall countries enjoy such freedom as ours. The memorandum compares the British methods concerning their property interests and improving their social and moral welfare with the previous German tyrannical exploitation, and expresses a hope that in the.near future the island may become part of the great Empire.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '