Caledonia

traders busy in new

Acute Lock of Small Change

Prom Our Own Correspondent NOUMEA, August 10.

THE lack of small change in this Col ony has been acute since the arri val of the American Forces. To overcome the shortage, the local Trea sury is issuing paper money (bons de caisse) the value of which will be the same as the coin currency, namely 2 francs, 1 franc and 50 centimes. These a £ e k Ol P£ printed locally, and the value of the issue will be 250,000 francs.

Cafes, and fruit-juice and sandwich bars for the men of the American Forces are being opened everywhere, and there are numerous applications still to be dealt with-—for a licence is necessary for such a business. The word “Hamburger” has appeared for the first time on a Noumea shop-window.

A French military camp in New Cale donia has been named Camp Lieutenant- Colonel Broche, after the leader of the Free French Pacific Battalion, killed at Bir Hakheim, Libya.