No Shoe-Leather
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New Caledonia's Economic Troubles
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Sept. 1.
AT present, there is such a scarcity of leather in New Caledonia that shoes cannot be soled.
The head of the Colony’s Economic Department (Mr. Puaux) complains that Australia, which gives this country a good price for all the hides that are exported, is refusing such necessities as caustic soda and newsprint, although the quantities needed are not large. “It is to be hoped,” he adds, “that the Com monwealth will take the situation into consideration.”
Mr. Bert Heath, one of Guinea Air ways’ pilots at Lae, New Guinea, is at present spending leave in Adelaide, South Australia.
Mrs. Walter J. Daniels, wife of the new vicar of Thursday Island, has returned to TI from Sydney with her daughter, Angela, and her new baby, Nigel.