r very unfavorably, dry land area, of course, with the 2.32 square miles of the 229.40 square miles of lagoon area, and the large reef areas of Bikini Atoll. Kili was purchased by German traders from the local chiefs. and was operated as a commercial copra plantation by the “Germans. The title to the island was transferred to the Japanese Government when the Japanese seized the Marshalls in 1914, It was leased to a Japanese company and operated as a copra plantation until 1940. There were allegedly not more than about thirty Marshallese laborers working on the plantation at a time. thirty miles Food was brought to the to supplement southeast, in from Jaluit Atoll, Chickens and the imported foodstuffs. fruit trees were planted and used, copra plantation, A but the about swine were raised small number island was of bread- primarily a Kili passed into tne hands of the United States Government following World War II, and the few remaining plantation workers | Kili, were evacuated, | lying as it does in the southern Marshall, heavy rainfall and has rich and deep soil, enjoys a for the Marshalls, Most of the island, 198.04 acres have been planted to coconut palms (191.17 acres). A taro patch area occupies the center of the itsland to the extent of 4.25 acres. There are a number of bearing breadfrutit trees, some edible pandanus, banana, 3 as well as papaya and pumpkin plantings. A serious breadfriut blignt Has destroyed many of the trees On Kili and remains unenecked. <A method of controlling this menace has ae not yet 9004bOI been found,