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(Truk District)
Tab A
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TRUK
(Cont'd)
venture, the schooner NOMAD, which was seen by the inspection
party at Nama, made the company's first trading cruise in
December 1948.
Truk is virtually self-sufficient in food, having coconuts, taro, breadfruit, sweet potatoes, bananas, mangoes,
some citrus fruits, fish, poultry and pigs. Experiments are
being conducted in raising other vegetables from imported
seeds.
Exports are all in Navy bottoms at the present time.
Land titles are being processed.
(f£)
Rehabilitation on Truk is virtually complete, although
eventual replacement of temporary construction with permanent
structures will be required. The Civil Administrator is en-
couraging thatch-roof construction, with coral-lime or wooden
sides, and this appeared on Moen to be having some effect.
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Salvaged lumber is about exhausted.
A Japanese lumber mill,
if made operative, would provide building material in quantity.
(g)
Services.
(1)
Transportation.
Transportation for the natives within Truk lagoon is in-
MRE::.
sufficient.
There are some large outrigger canoes, and a
small supply of ex-Navy whaleboats have been made available
to the Trukese for sale and conversion for intra-atoll work.
Of the six presently available, five were not considered
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salvageable by the Trukese, as the modern-day Trukese are not
far advanced in boatbuilding. Additional Navy hulls from
World War II stock that are in more salvageable condition
would be helpful in the Truk atoll economy.
Facilities for off-loading cargo at Moen included an
LCM, a MWB, and a self-propelled pontoon barge, all of which
were based at a shallow-water pier. An additional LCM is
recommended at Moen to assist in off-loading and in CivAd
administrative trips to the other islands in Truk atoll. The
deeper-water pier under contract construction at Moen had
been partially destroyed by a December storm and was unusable,
Completion of this pier would be of great assistance in off~
loading cargo.
Landplane and seaplane facilities are available on
Moen Island.
(2)
(See page 64, Tab A.)
Radio communication facilities are discussed in the
next section of Tab A.
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