Governor of N. Caledonia

From Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, August 6.

MONSIEUR Henri Montchamp, the new Governor of New Caledonia, has arrived in Noumea, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Captain da Costa. He was received on his arrival by the Sec retary General, M. Bourgeau; Colonel Lanusse, Pacific troop commandant; M.

Foureade, Chef de Cabinet Civil of the High Commissariat; and by a represen tative of the officer commanding the American Forces in New Caledonia.

Official honours were rendered the Governor on the following day by French Caledonian and United States troops, French sailors, and the Noumea com pany of the Home Guard.

Monsieur Montchamp was wearing the white kepi of the African administrator and the ribbons of the Legion d’Honneur, Croix de Guerre and Medaille Coloniale.

He impresses one as being the type of man well fitted to govern a Colony like New Caledonia —a job that is far from being a sinecure.

In his first public address in Noumea, the new Governor paid a tribute to the retiring Governor, M. Henri Sautot, whom he had met in New York in July.

M. Sautot had come from New Zealand, en route to London.