New Caledonia
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Resident Says It Should Be Australian or American
Mr. Julius Petersen, A Dane By
birth, and a Frenchman by adop tion, and now a resident of Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, is visiting Sydney.
He is 75 years old. After a seafaring career, he settled on a plantation in Santo, in the New Hebrides, in 1897. In 1927, he sold out.
Mr. Petersen told Sydney newspapers that the New Hebrides Condominium is a failure. The solution he suggested was to divide the territory so that each na tion could have supreme control over one portion.
“Although I am French by adoption”, Mr. Petersen added, “I believe that New Caledonia would be better off in the hands of Australia or the United States”.