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? M/ 64 2 April 1973
AID TO GILBERT AND EILTICE ISLANDS
Australia is to give assistance to the value of
$ 450,000 to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony for the
~ construction of a water supply system in the town of Betio
on the Tarawa Atoll.
Announcing this today, the Special Minister of
State and Minister assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Senator Willesee, said that the assistance included equipment,
Spipelines, pumps and storage tanks. These materials will be
supolied through the Department of Works, which will also
provide an engineer tosupervise teproject. Fudfoth
scheme will be taken from the GEIC's share of the current
Australian $ 15 million aid pledge to the South Pacific area
up to the end of 1975, and it ties in with the GEIC Administration's
Three Year Development Plan which gives water supply a high
priority. The town of Betio has 665 households and a ponulation
of 4,600 according to the last census. With this relatively high
population density and lack of adeauate sewerage facilities the
water sources are subject to contamination and a piped water supply
system will eliminate the currently high risk to public health.
Whitlam, Gough
Period of Service: 05/12/1972 - 11/11/1975
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Release Date:
02/04/1973
Release Type:
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Transcript ID:
2876
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