Raymond Gadabu (25 September 1921 – 17 October 1964)South Pacific Conference Fourth Session
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an politician who served as Head Chief between 1953 and 1955.

Biography

Gadabu was a member of the Iruwa tribe. Gadabu attended Nauru Primary School before moving to Australia to study at Geelong Junior Technical College, the

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and Everett's Business College in Melbourne.Australian Representation
''Current Notes on International Affairs'', May 1961. In 1941 he began work as a ledger clerk at Geelong and Crossy Trading, later becoming a shipping clerk and salesman for the company. He returned to Nauru in 1945 to join the civil service, becoming a welfare officer. The following year he became an accounts clerk, and in 1951 was appointed a clerk in the Nauruan Affairs department. When democracy was introduced to Nauru in 1951, Gadabu was elected to the first

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from the Aiwo constituency.Nancy Viviani (1970) ''Nauru: Phosphate and Political Progress'' Australian National University Press, p. 105. Following the death of Head Chief Timothy Detudamo in April 1953, Gadabu was elected as his replacement.Viviani, p. 106. In 1954 he was appointed a Nauruan Affairs officer and made a magistrate in the Nauru District Court. Although he was re-elected to the Council in

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, he was replaced as Head Chief by Hammer DeRoburt.

References

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