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for 100 men students is being proposed for planned expansion
of the school. Some additional school and recreational equip~
ment is being requested.
Proposals are under consideration for increased, prac-
tical instruction in agriculture, and in that connection for
iaaintenance by trainees of a subsistence garden. The Deputy
High Commissioner's Staff Agriculturist, Professor Burton,
remained on Koen Island after departure of the inspection
party, to explore this field.
(3)
Instruction of an intermediate teachers group, number-
ing 250 native students, was being conducted at the time of
this inspection in six classrooms of the PITTS buildings, and
is designed to graduate students in the summer of 1949 for
return to islands in the Eastern Carolines area as teachers
for their home elementary schools.
(d)
Religion.
There are 32 Protestant and 19 Catholic churches on the
islands and atolls of Truk» Cooperative relations appeared
to exist between CivAd officials and Protestant and Catholic
missionaries making their headquarter§ on licen Island.
(e)
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Economic development.
Copra sales by the natives of Truk atoll amounted to
' $29,360.08 during the last quarter of the calendar year 1948;
handicraft sales amounted to $1544.53 for the same period.
The 1948 trochus shell season brought in $5,364.64 to natives.
Two Trukese fishing companies operated in the latter
part of 1948, one using seine techniaues grossing $783.20,
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the other using trolling technique grossing $342.60.
major catch is tuna and barracuda.
The
The I.T-C. branch at Koen
is bringing in two 3-1/2-ton fishing vessels, with trained
Bonin Islanders to instruct the Trukese in techniques.
The
Truk Trading Company is encouraging fishing as an industry
and is considering plans for a company-owned cannery+
Fruit grown in Truk is a future marketable possibility,
this presently being partially dependent on requirements for
refrigerated shipping.
The Truk Trading Company, locally owned, is efficiently
managed by Kir. Henry Chatroop, a former United States Com-
mercial Company executive.
The TIC apparently is solid,
financially, and should be able to relieve the Island Trading
Company of its trading tasks in the near future. In addition
to a well-stocked store, the company operates a copra press
and a soap-making plant, all on Moen.
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