New Bishop Of N. Hebrides

THE appointment has been announced of Rev. Father Jules Halbert, of Kone. New Caledonia, to be Catholic- Bishop of the New Hebrides in place of Monseigneur Doucere, who died at Vila in May.

Monseigneur Pierre Marie Jules Hal bert was born at Landreau. France, in 1886, and studied theology at Nantes. He was ordgjned a priest in 1911 from the College of Marist Fathers in Luxembourg.

In the same year, he arrived in New Caledonia and took up missionary ser vice at Kone, where he has carried out faithful and devoted work ever since In 1935. he visited Australia to attend a conference of Oceania Marist Fathers, as representative of the missionaries of New Caledonia.