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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 January 1940Vol. X, No. 6

Japanese Consul for N. Caledonia

pp. 55-56 · Read in the full issue

THE arrival is expected shortly of Mr.

Kuroki Tokitaro, who has beer ap pointed by the Japanese Government as Japanese Consul in New Caledonia.

Up to the present, there has been no Japanese Consul in the Colony, the Mikado’s subjects being represented merely by a Charge d’ Affaires selected from among Japanese subjects resident in New Caledonia.

Mr. Oscar Olsson, who was secretary of the Norfolk Island Lighterage Co. and a member of the Post Office staff, died recently at Kingston, N. 1.. aged 45. He went to Norfolk Island from Australia about 10 years ago and for a time was engaged in storekeeping and farming, Mr. August Hack, an old and respected resident of Samoa, died recently at the age of 71 years. A native of Germany,

Mr. Hack went to Samoa originally as a wheelwright in the service of the D.H. and P.G.

Mr. J. Francon Williams, dentist in the Medical Department of the Western Samoa Administration, arrived in New Zealand in December on short leave. He joined Mrs. Williams, who left Apia about a month earlier.