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Germany, as the whole world knows, fought hard for the re- possession of her South Seas territories, especially the Treasure Island of Nauru. This island with its millions of tons of phosphate of line the highest grade scil fertilser known, was valuable to the over worked
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the Fatherland. Thousands of tons of the precious product i were, before the war, annually taken to Germany though the wines were worked by British enterprise Nauru Island is a tiny speck of land in the Central Pacific Ocean, 33 miles south of the Equator, and about equal distant from Australia. Ame- rics. and Japan, that is about 3,000 miles It is 12 miles in circumference and
5,000 acres in extent.
By one of those incomprehen-- sible turns of diplomacy, in which the British lost and the Germans. gained this small but very valu- able territory passed some years ago into the possession of Ger- WAS attached for many, and administration to the Marshall Islands. 300 miles of, and how under the Japanese. It was British enterprise which disco- vered the valuable phosphate rock, and built up a splendid industry for its exploitation. In the history of the German owner- ship of the island there is nothing creditable to record. The treat- inent of the natives was shocking, and there is little wonder they appreciate the present day British administration and have petition- ed King George to take them under his protection. It was to this little island that the King, when a mid-shipman in H. M. S. "Bacchante." called on his voyage round the world and when on his way from Australia to China One or two of the very old natives and traders remember him well,! and the kindly manner in which he and his elder brother enter- tained them while on an invitation visit to the ship.
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in sight of the valuable phosphate THE SCIENCE AT BARNET rock, and so the British Empire will not be short for many and many a day of this fertiliser.. British enterprise is opening up the phosphate fields of Nauru, worked under German jurisdic tion before the war. At present every German element has been! eliminated.
Since the cecupation of the island, in 1914. the Administrator, Mr. G. B. W. Smith Rowse, an Imperial officer of long Pacific Islands' experience, has accom- plished arch for the advance of trade and the care of the natives. He has built a splendid hospital for the natives and from being a wretched, sickly, dying race they coming back to the old vigour for which they
famous Were
prior
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now
his place on the rope, well content that all that foolishness was over for the moment.
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It is obvious that more than words go to the buying of a horse. There must be some freemasonary There is far more in buying a which is not understood by the horse than might be supposed outsider. For the same horse. Chronicte Such is the opinion of a Daily which was returned to the rope representative who after a prospective buyer had visited Barnet Fair recently.
shown so plainly that he had no. The preliminary stages are sort of interest in such a spavin- broken-winded Rosinnate, easy enough. You make your ed. way to Barnet up the Great North would be seen later in his charge. Road, and past merry little being led down the Great North- groups, which have deserted their road with every sign of pride decorated wagonettes at each of of ownership.
The war has left its mark on the quaintly-named hostelries- the Bald-Faced Stag and the Barnet Fair. Knowing ones did not need to look for a brand to Stan with Two Necks.
With money in your purse, you identify a good bargain among, push by the frivolous pleasure the ex-Army horses. By their fair which stands in sloping fields book-clipped manes they were on one side of the road, and make known, and they were chosen for your way along a lane until you their beautiful manners,
On unimpeachable authority, reach an even steeper field on the
Chronicie learnt to the German administration. other side. Here are the horses, the Daily They have been diverted from well mingled with cheapjacks that the best bargains in the field were the wild little Welsh ponies. their idle ways. the villages and refreshment booths. cleaned up and improved. The It is easy to work your way to none of them full-grown, but full Nauruaus are 2 handsome, one of the roughly-made corrals of spunk and vim.
£15 would purchase one of the horses, mostly all where intelligent race, and like
rub-these little fellows, fresh from Central Pacific people are divided hackbeys this year, are into two classes, the high casts, t.bing poses and kicking their the mountain-side. and of the or chief families, and the common heels. It is comparatively easy breed which has made Newtown people, Dr slaves. Marriage to pick out from the bunch famous.
Early in the day the horses anc waistcoated between the two is sternly forbid. of bronzed
Later the den. The Nauru women are gentlemen who are contemplating were the things. accounted the best figured and them the particular gentleman pleasure fair filled up. All the handsomest in the whole Pacific. who is interested in each. Even old favourites were there, the The people are noted for their the most verdant of greenhorns merry-go-rounds, the slippery pleasant manners, one reason why would guess that it is good slides, the cocoanut shies, and the island used to be called business to look at any but the the hoop-la. But the cost of 14 Pleasant, a name very often horse you really have in your playing has gone up just as has seen on out of date maps. The mind when the bronzed gentle-the-cost of living, and one now In an comes and talks con-spends 3d. on a ride in place of sport of the natives is the captur ing and taming of frigate birds. fidentially to you about horses in the pre-war penny.
"Fairings," the crisp rolls of sleepy creatures
general and his own in parti- by no means
brandysnap. cost Londoners who brilliant of plumage. Trained as decoys to entice wild birde There follows the putting of wanted to do the thing properly yesterday 8d. a quarter, while to the traps and roosts," they the horses through their paces.
of the rainbow-tinted With a tremendous explosion some is which very remarkable. They seem to of shouts and cracking of whips, Barnet Rock had risen to as expected as a flurrying of whisky and shaking much as 10d. for a quarter of alb. know what is them, and in mid air will of paper. Hage, a selected horse or
The crop of strikes and rumours entice and even bully untamed two is dragged away from the
10 be captured. The bunch and jerked up and down of strikes in Shanghai continues phosphate industry, as carried by an ecergetic ostler. After an to flourish. At a meeting of 1,500
by the
British,
hour or two at this game, the house painters in the native city stand- supreme in the tropics. The horses are terribly bored, and it a demand was made for a 40 per scare acent increase on their present comfort of the employees is main- takes enough noise tä tained in a liberal manner. Every streetfull of ordinary horses wage of 200 cash per day. The employee, single as well as before one at Barnet will con matter is undecided. The makers of brass footwarmers in Nagtao married, is allotted a spacious descend to frisk even a little.
Great is the excitement have asked for a one cent increase bungalow free, electric light, free laundries, free ice, and the daily amongst the beacfeasters, pure in their pay for each completed The mastersoffer distribution of fresh food. Social and simple, who line the hedges, article.
On Sunday after- work is carried on by an Enter sandwiches in hand and bottle by six cash,. tainment Committee; there are the side, when their meal is scat-00s, some of the strikers went theatres and picture shows, and tered, by a hose, which has at round, intimidating those who re- outdoor sports, such as cricket last been induced to give a little mained at work, threatening and tennis, on excellent grounds. colour to its owner's, description them with daggers, Several Libraries, recreation, and billiard of a beast of mighty spirits. arrests were made. The brass- So far alhis simple. But who smiths, and zinc-workers also room are free to the employees Under British administration boys, the horses 2. The Daily went on strike. Those who were Nauira should be one of the Chronicle representative witness, receiving:16 or 18 cents a day are xreat commercial assets of the ed hundreds of transactionswich now to have for three days British Empire. The Morning reached this stage and ended work and the apprentices will Post
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