Memorial For Pomare V.
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From Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Dec. 8.
A COMMITTEE has been formed, under the presidency-of-honour of the Governor of French Oceania, M. Chastenet de Gery, to collect funds by popular subscription, to erect a statue in memory of Pomare V., the last reigning sovereign of Tahiti.
It has been recalled that memorials have been erected in the island to Bougainville, Capt. Cook, and Pierre Loti, and that the broad main high way through the New Papeete has been named Avenue Prince Hinoi; but, as yet, no suitable memorial to King Pomare V —who voluntarily ceded the islands to France —is in existence.
The committee, besides His Ex cellency, includes two high chiefs— Teriierooiterai, of Tahiti, and Tauirai Mataitai, of Moorea—the Mayor of Papeete, M. Georges Bambridge, and several other representative citizens, with M. Edouard Ahnne as Executive President.
Mr. W. H. H. Thompson, Assistant Resident Magistrate at Kairuku, Papua, is at present on leave. He sailed from Port Moresby by the last “Tasman”.
Sister Estelle Field, a New Zealander, who is on the staff of the Melanesian Mission in the Solomon Islands, de parted from Sydney for 8.5.1. by the “Malaita” on January 7. She had just completed furlough in England.