Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 June 1937Vol. VII, No. 11

No Casino For Noumea

p. 30 · Read in the full issue

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THE refusal of the French Minister for the Colonies to permit the estab lishment of a Casino in New Caledonia was the result of a report made by M.

Barthe, a Colonial official, sdys the Bulletin du Commerce, of Noumea. M.

Barthe was of opinion that the function ing of a casino would have a bad effect upon the morals of the people of New Caledonia.

The newspaper is wrathful and indig nant. It refers to all the casinos which operate in France, without doing any noticeable harm to French morals, and it proceeds to tell M. Barthe just what it thinks of him.

The casino plan is dead, for the mom ent, however.

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