(TrukDistrict)
Tab A
SATAWAN
at the time of inspection.
not screened or covered.
(c)
(Cont'd)
‘iater catchwents generally were
Education.
There is a public elementary school (1st to 4th grades),
with 68 pupils registered. The native teacher had a pleasant
personality, is trying hard, but has little training. He
plans to attend PITTS (see page 58, Tab A) this summer.
The
schoolhouse is new, of thatched-roof, open-sided construction,
It is adequite in size and furniture.
Religion.
A Catholic church, with a native missionary supervised
by a Spanish Jesuit priest who serves the liortlock Islands,
has a congregation of 280. The church is of native construc-
tion and is well cared for. A Protestant church, served by
a native lay pastor, is smaller, and in construction is simi-
lar to the Catholic church. Both churches have stone and
coral sides to a height of three feet; pandanus siding above
the stone and coral, with trim, open windows; partial, concrete
floors with inlaid shells; and roofs, with some steel rod
Gaara:
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(a)
An empty, suspended gas cylinder
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Some supplies needed renewal.
serves as the school bell.
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with coral floor.
reinforcement and thatched insulation.
(e)
Economic development.
There is some export of copra and handicraft. For the
last quarter of the calendar year 1948, copra export totalled
$498.70 in volume, handicraft $397.00.
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floor mats, fans and table (hot-plate) mats.
Some rice is imported. However, Satawan is self-sufficient in food, having coconuts, a large taro patch, larze
breadfruit trees, bananas, papayas, fish, chickens, ducks ana
pigs.
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The village store is low in stock, but there is little
demand for merchandise as the villagers are poor, The Truk
Trading Company (see page 59, Tab A) supplies trade goods,
making periodic calls in its schooner, the NUMAD.
The total economy is still dependent on field trips of
U.S. naval ships.
(f)
Rehabilitation on Satawan Island is virtually canplete.
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REPRODUCED FROM HOLDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
The handicraft ready
at the time of this inspection was minimum in guantity but
excellent in quality, with special emphasis on woven pandanus
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aagathes,