ties,
The number of barbers varied with demands for service.
On the
other islands, hair cutting was done by non-professional "experienced"
volunteers.
The following table shows gross receipts from the beginning of Holmes
& Narver operation of this facility in February 1951:
Month
Gross Receipts
February
$
March
April
633.00
744.00
1,122 ,00
1,059.00
May
POST EXCHANGE
Post exchange units were established and operated for the convenience
of personnel on Parry, Runit, Engebi, Biijiri, and Japtan. These units
stocked necessary items of clothing, towels, toiletries, magazines, candy,
fishing tackle, watches, stationery, and other supplies.
The main store
at Parry, after being enlarged in March 1951, occupied a floor area of
1344 square feet, a thitd of which was used as customer area and the re-
mainder for storage of stock,
The Parry P.X. supplied stock for other
stores, which were set up in makeshift locations.
the volume of sales for each site.
Table 16,5~6. shows
TABLE 16,5-6, POST EXCHANGE SALES BY SITES
Month
1950
September
October
November
December
1951
January
February
March
April
May
16-30
Parry
Runit
Biijiri
Engebi
Japtan
$ 9,044.00 $1,203.00 $1,612.00 $4,405.00
9,212.00
1,452.00
1,9%2.00 4,666.00
13,310.00
11,817.00
11,671.00
1,916.00
2,176.00
1,729.00
2,142.00
1,399.00
17,599.00
2,197.00
22,556.00
30 , 420.00
34.00
—
18,655.00
1,956.00
1,965.00
5,625.00
7,780.00
5,993.00
3,656,00
6,630.00
2,720.00
768.00
2,746.00
2,977.00
3,576.00
6,663.00
—
—
—
-
——
$
774,00
1,222.00
154.00
1,526.00
2,284.00