Governor of N. Caledonia

IT is now announced that M. Desanti will not go to Noumea as French High Commissioner and Governor of New Caledonia. M. Pierre Pages has been nominated, instead, under a decree dated May 10.

Governor Jore has been at Noumea since July 3, 1938. His departure is re gretted, for his benevolent and loyal administration and his whole-hearted co operation with the Administrative Coun cil has won for him the goodwill of the population.

New Caledonia has had about 20 Gov ernors in the last 10 or 15 years.

M. Pages is 46 years old, and an offi cer of the Legion of Honour and holder of the Military Cross. He became a Colonial Administrator in 1917, and as sistant colonial inspector in 1922. He was a Superior Resident (2nd class) in Indo-China in 1931, and he was Gover nor of Cochin-China in 1934, at the age of 41.

Miss Teresa Butler, who retired in February from the position of Matron of the Avarua Hospital, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, received an M.B.E. in the King’s Birthday Honours. She went to Samoa in 1922; and was later at Niue Island; and then served for eight years at the

Rarotonga Hospital.