Another New Governor

for N. Caledonia

A FEW weeks ago, it was announced that M. Desanti would succeed M.

Jore as Governor of New Caledonia.

On May 10, it was decreed that, in stead of M. Desanti. M. Pages would re ceive the position.

On June 17, this was cancelled, and M. Barthes (Chief Inspector in the Col onial Ministry) was appointed.

M. Barthes is due in Sydney, by the air service, on July 31, and should be in Noumea on August 7.

These extraordinary manoeuvres have not been explained. M. Barthes will be New Caledonia’s 24th Governor since 1897. The ‘'Bulletin du Commerce” calls it “the Waltz of the Governors”.

High Chief Malietoa Tanumafili, 0.8. E., head of one of the royal families of Western Samoa, and held universally in high esteem, died suddenly in Apia on July 9, aged 59.

Dr. Peter H. Buck, New Zealand-born director of Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and lecturer on anthropology at Yale Univer sity, has been given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Roches ter. Dr. Buck will return to the Bishop Museum this month.