Demand For N. Caledonian
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Nickel
IT is reported that the world’s nickel interests are seeking to make arrange ments for the purchase of large quanti ties of nickel in New Caledonia.
Mr. W. H. Caporn, formerly of Noumea but who now lives in Australia where he is a merchant buyer of metals, minerals, and iron ores, visited New Caledonia last year and he returned early this year to the French colony with Mr. Cunnyham Dunlop, an engineer attached to a Cana dian armaments firm. They are interested in the low 3 to 5 per cent nickel ore and are endeavouring to arrange for the pur chase of a large amount of ore. Mr.
Caporn has entered into negotiations with the owners of several mines.
Between now and 1938 the world’s nickel interests hope to buy 200,000 tons of New Caledonian ore.
The engagement has been announced of Irmgard Hermine, elder daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Kroening, of Toboroi Estate, Kieta, New Guinea, and Mr. James Mur ray Joyes, of Iwi Plantation, Bougain
ville, T.N.G.
Right Rev. John Manwaring Steward, 8.A., who was Bishop of Melanesia from 1919 to 1928, is at present seriously ill in England. An Oxonian, he served faithfully with the Mission in the South Seas for 26 years before retiring to live in Sussex.
Mr. E. Kenyon, a representative of Messrs. Lewis Berger & Sons (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.,' paint manufacturers, will leave Sydney by the Macdhui in October on a business trip to Papua and New Guinea.