(Ponape District)
HOKIL (Cont'd)
size, and reasonably well-equipped.
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Religion °
The Protestant church is an imposing structure, built by
the people of Molkil in 1936. It measures 30' x 8!', has reinforced concrete side walls, hand-hewn lumber floor and tinm-
bers on the sides and roof.
The native lay pastor reported
the Sunday church attendance averaged 160, and Sunday school
160.
(e)
Economic developmente
Exports in the October and December field trips were:
copra, $3,272-00; handicraft, $1,109.50; dried fish, $70.50.
Mokil handicraft is excellent — their fans, with featheredge, tortoise-shell center, woven frame and handle in most
cases approaching miseum pieces in quality and design.
"okil" pulling boats are well constructed.
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The Navy
has purchased 3 of these boats, 2 have been sold to Ponape,
and 22 were waiting export sale. Average period of hand-tool
construction of each boat from breadfruit tree to launching
is three weeks. The Navy has ordered 12 more of these boats
for use aboard AG operating in the Trust Territory, and is to
provide lumber for future construction in order to conserve
breadfruit trees on kKokil for their food-producing value to
the natives.
Mokil is self-sufficient in food, having coconuts, bread-
fruit, taro, plantain, yams, bananas, chickens, pigs and fishe
The people were proud of what they called their "ice boxes"
for fish —- 20' souare stone reservoirs built out from the
waterfront and automatically kept filled and refreshed with
water by tidal actione
ARCHIVES
The village retail store carried a low, but adequate,
stock of imports, and was short only atthe time of inspection in small-size fishing tacklee
NATIONAL
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Rehabilitation is completed on Mokile
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Servicese
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MULUINGS
Transportation within Kokil atoll is by outrigger sloop
or canoe, and by whaleboat.
canoes in the atoll.
There were 30 sloops and 30
A U.S. naval ship makes a field trip
to Mokil once every 2-3 months.
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Rehabilitations
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