(Ponape District)
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NUKUORO (Cont'd)
R ligion.
The native church (Protestant) was built by the people
during German times, and is constructed of reinforced concrete, some timbers and a corrugated sheet iron roof. The
leading native lay pastor reported 100% of the people attend-
ed church.
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Economic development.
Copra export the last quarterly field trip collections
of the calendar year 1948 totalled $2,402.63 in value.
Handi-
craft is beginning to develop as an industry. Nukuoro is
self-sufficient in food, with coconuts, taro, yams, bananas,
pandanus, sugar cane, breadfruit, fish, chickens and pigs.
The pigs are kept on an adjacent island of the atoll. There
is a specie of very large-sized coconuts on Nukuoro, of which
Professor Burton brought out several for transplanting on
other islands of the Trust Territory.
There is one retail store, operated by the community,
and supplied by the Ponape Cooperative. The stock was adequate except for fishing tackle.
The island's overall economy is presently dependent on
naval export and import shipping.
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has been campleted on Nukuoro.
High winds late
in November 1948 had damaged many living, cook and canoe houses,
and these had been practically rebuilt at the time of the inspection.
Services,
(1) Transportation within Nukuoro atoll is by outrigger canoes,
of which there appeared to be too few and these mostly old,
and by an ex-Navy pulling whaleboat. additional ex-Navy boats
would be of assistance in fostering copra production. Nukuoro
Passage into the lagoon is deep and wide but has a sharp, reefedged turn at its inner end. It is recommended that sufficient
blasting of this inner reef by UDT personnel be accomplished
in order to permit safe passage by AG, thereby eliminating
the two-mile whaleboat trip presently required for off-loading.
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Administrative organization.
Liaison between the Civil Administrator, Ponape District, and
Nukuoro is accanplished during field trips, the last one of which
visited the island via AG on 21 November 1948. Tasks of these
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