That ended in—and I have a few quotes here, sort of linked to the colonisation aspect of it. And this is from the words of the British civil servant and phosphate commissioner Arthur Grimble, who made this explicit in 1928 when presenting a mining agreement to the people of Buakonikai in Banaba: "If you do not sign the agreement, do you think your lands will not go? Do not be blind. Your lands will be compulsorily acquired [by] the Empire." And this is backed up by the industrial agriculture New Zealand phosphate commissioner Albert Ellis when he said—and he clarified the process—that "there can be no civilisation without population, no population without food, and no food without phosphate."