The Nauru Island Agreement made in 1919 between the governments of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand provided for the administration of the island and for working of the phosphate deposits by an inter-governmental British Phosphate Commission ( BPC ).
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In 1919, the three trustees signed the Nauru Island Agreement, which entitled them to the Pacific Phosphate Company for more than 3.5 million pounds on 1 July 1920, and started to manage it directly on 1 January 1921, after a six-month transition period of PPC management.
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Thus, the traditional dress of the Nauru Island " fish dance, " which to Americans will look like something they'd see in " Saturday Night Live " skit, takes on a strange sort of dignity, and the elaborate scars of a Congolese woman seem elegant and fine.
