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particularly damage to trees.
These general arrangements were appropriate to the sites at Kusaile,
Kapingamrangi, Utirik, Wotho, Rongelap, and Ujelang, but not to the sites
at, Tarawa or Nauru, inasmuch as Tarawa and Nauru were not under United
States Trust Territory jurisdiction.
Joint Task Force SEVEN in March directed that native personnel would
be reimbursed from appropriated fundss and, in the case of Tarawa and Nauru, before enploying native laborers at these sites, permission would have
to be obtained fran the local government authorities and appropriate terms
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of employment and reimbursement arranged.
A final Joint Task Force SEVEN decision stated that the Kusaie team
was to continue paying its indigenous laborers as originally arranged,
that is, in broken lots of food.
dium.
Rice, principally, was the payment me-
At Tarawa and Kapingammrangl payrent was to be in cash, negotiated
through the appropriate Trust Territory representatives.
exployees were to be hired at Nauru for any purpose.
No indigenous
Finally, payment of
natives at Utirik, Welang, Wotho, and Rongelap was determined no to be
a Task Group 7.4 reaponsibility but a concern of Holmes and Narver which
was the responsible agency for camp housekeeping at these sites.
The necessary paperwork for payment of indigenous employees under
Task Group 7.4 control was processed by the Task Group 7.4 Comptroller
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