Export Ban Hits Japanese
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Mines In N. Caledonia
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Oct. 14.
OWING to the ban which has been placed on the export of New Cale donian minerals to Japan, two Japanese-controlled mining concerns operating here —the Societe le Per and the Societe Miniere et Metallurgique de I’Oceanie —are restricting their output.
The Societe le Per has already dis missed from its iron mine at Goro, in the south, 200 of its 600 Javanese labourers, who have been found other employment in the Colony. The two com panies are expected to close down if the ban continues.
Mr. Nevill Young, of Kwato, Papua, arrived in Australia recently to enlist for service overseas.
Monsieur Delannoy, a senior public ser vice official, who recently arrived in Noumea, New Caledonia, from French Equatorial Africa, now is attached to the French administration at Port Vila, New Hebrides.