Honour For Dr. De Curton

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete, Dec. 13

ON November 5 a ball and dinner were given at Papeete in honour of Dr. de Curton (former Governor of French Oceania), on the eve of his departure for London, and of a number of others whose destination is the Middle East, where they will join up with the de Gaulle forces in the field.

On account of lighting restrictions, the ball was held at an historic old mansion at Taaone, not very distant from Papeete, known in recent years as the Rougier Place. This is a spacious brick structure of a type of architecture quite common in the cotton States of North America.