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As you know,

Kili is

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lagoon, |

an island with no reef and no

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and access to the island is very difficult for most of the

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year.

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processed

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island

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passing

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the

Faced

these

conditions,

copra in

large

quantities

rarely.

Months

ships,

world

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with

is

and

by

our

frequently

only

our

because

go

by

without

a

the

visit

this

visit

from

rest

of

radio.

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to

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and provide

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Islands.

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their

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of surplus government food.

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at Kili,

have not

boats

communicaton with

The construction of a long pier
dock

people

encourage

our

on Kili would enble boats .

people

to

process

more

copra,

a much-needed tie to the rest of the Marshall

Moreover,

fishing

skills

a pier

would

and make

us

enable

less

our

people

dependent

to

regain

on shipments

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Other projects must be undertaken if Kili is to become our

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permanent home for the next two generations.

A short 2,000-

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root runway would help to break the isolation we feel from

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the

rest of

the

world,

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case of emergency.

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to enable us to

and it would

insure

immediate

aid in

The few roads on Kili should be improved

transport

copra more

easily from one end

of

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