1951 Nauruan Local Government Council Election
Elections for the Local Government Council were held for the first time in Nauru on 15 December 1951.Nancy Viviani (1970) Nauru: Phosphate and Political Progress' Australian National University Press, p105 Background Since 1928 Nauru had had a Council of Chiefs whose members were elected for life terms. The Council of Chiefs did not have any powers and served only to advise the Administrator, who did not have to heed their advice.Viviani, p94 The Council sent a petition to the 1948–49 session of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, complaining that "the Native inhabitants still had no voice in the formulation of general administration policies or in the control of the finances in the island." However, the Australian Acting Minister for External Territories Cyril Chambers persuaded the Council to withdraw the petition. In April 1950 the United Nations Visiting Mission visited Nauru for the first time, and recommended to the Trusteeship Council that the Council of Chiefs should ...
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Nauru Local Government Council
The Nauru Local Government Council was a legislative body in Nauru. It was first established in 1951, when Nauru was a United Nations trust territory, as a successor to the Council of Chiefs. It continued to exist until 1992, when it was dissolved in favor of the Nauru Island Council. History Since 1928, the Nauruan people had been represented by an elected Council of Chiefs, which only had the power to advise the Administrator. By the late 1940s, there were calls for greater Nauruan self-government, both internationally by members of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, and internally by Nauruans themselves. Australia, which administered Nauru, was against this. The Council of Chiefs submitted a petition for more self-government for Nauru to the 1948-49 session of the Trusteeship Council, however Australian Acting External Affairs Minister Cyril Chambers convinced the Council of Chiefs to withdraw the petition. In 1950, the United Nations Visiting Mission recommended to the ...
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Buada Constituency
Buada Constituency is one of the constituencies of Nauru. It returns two members from Buada to the Parliament of Nauru The Parliament of Nauru has 19 members, elected for a three-year term in multi-seat constituencies. The President of Nauru is elected by the members of the Parliament.

1951 In Nauru
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel ''Journey Through ...
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1951 Elections In Oceania
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel ''Journey Through ...
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