Pacific Colonies

Broadcast To French

r r'HE Australian Department of Information, in A conjunction with the Australian Broadcast ing Commission, makes a daily broadcast in French of news, talks, and music for listeners in New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Tahiti.

Transmission is made from Station VLQ, Sydney, on a wave-length of 31.2 metres (frequency, 9.615 mcs.) and consists of the following items:—

Mr. R. M. Watson, of the NZ Judi ciary, will retire shortly after many years’ service on the Bench. He was the first officer to fill the position of Chief Judge ,of Western Samoa under the NZ Man date, going to the Territory in 1920.

Aust. Eastern Noumea Standard Time.

Time. 6.25 p.m. 7.25 p.m.

Announcements. 6.30 p.m. 7.30 p.m.

News in French. 6.50 p.m. 7.50 p.m.

Talk in French. 7.25 p.m. 8.25 p.m.

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Mr. Aime John Armstrong, who was well-known in Fiji as a member of the Civil Service, died in Australia on May 21, aged 61. He was born at Muanikau, Fiji, and at the age of 18 years joined the Civil Service as a clerk. In the ensuing 43 years Mr. Armstrong held many important positions, the last being that of Resident Magistrate at Kadavu.

At the time of his death he was on leave prior to retirement. It is interesting to note that Mr. Armstrong’s father, the late Henry Armstrong, was one of the early pioneers of the Colony. He pur chased land from the Polynesian Com

pany and settled in Suva in 1869 and was the first planter to can pineapples on a commercial scale in the Colony J Colonel H. Dix arrived in Auckland NZ, from Noumea, New Caledonia, early last month by PAA Clipper. He is well known in the Colony as the director of the Societe de Ouaco, which owns the large meat canning factory at Ouaco Mr. and Mrs. J. Petersen, of Sigatoka Fiji, are at present in Sydney on fur lough. He is manager of the Sigatoka branch of Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd