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The Treasury Solicitor, Rattheu Parker Street, LOhODN 5IJ1H 9m, England.
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Dear Rr Ing,
Ocean Island Phosphatos: Royalty Action As promised in my aorogranmo of today's date
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herewith the tuo Application for Temporary Membership
for the Royal Commonuiealth Society, duly filled in,Uith thsm I also enclosc;-
Sir Albert Ellis's 'Diary of liis Island in fiay, 1900*; and
Three of the actual Voting Cards when, on the 10th and 11th Ray,
uotad to make Rabi their headquarters and home, and 40 voted against.
Both these items uere requested by Mr Uinelott when he came see us in Canberra utth Rr Price,
As regards (l) I should bo grateful if it could be
returned after pierusal and, if desored, copying. It uas marked 'Strictly Confidential' by Sir Albert uhen he handed i t to me as he uas thon engaguci in writing his throe well-knownbooks and contemplated including it in one of them, or publishing
i t separately. He told me, howauor, that I could publish i t
after fiis death, if I so wished and ha had not already dona so,
and though I never made use of this permission I did send a copy to the British Phosphate Commission who, I believe, had i t circulated at one of their meetings,Ro (2) those Voting Cards were square sheets of paper
stamped uith the official stamp of the Magistrate's Court,
Rabi Island, and one was hanoad to each of the uanabans immed-e n c l o s e F orms
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lately before he or she entorud the Police-nuarded room where
F i r s t U i s i t to Ocean
used by the Uanabans 1947, 270 of them
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the two clearly-markod (and locked) ballot boxes were standing
on a t a b l e .
I kept the Court Stamp in my personal possession until the Ballot Boxes had bean opened in public and the Voting Cards counted and checked by the scrutineers, to preuent any possib
i l i t y of fraud.
The Ballot fiaxds were unmarked in any way (other than by the Stamp) to prevent the identification of the voter*
Thus I had no idea who had voted to return to Ocean Island
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and therefore stayed tuo further days on Rabi so that they could come to me for arrangements to be made for their free passages back to Ocean Island, But no one came.
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