Jap Heavily Fined For

Radio Offence

From Our Own Correspondent

Noumea, Sept. 1.

AT least six months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, the French authorities at Noumea imposed a fine of 16,000 francs on the Japanese nickel ship “San Francisco Naru” because the radio operator broke the seals of the vessel’s transmitter. The sealing of transmitters on foreign ships had been made obligatory in New Caledonian waters.

One of the Port of Noumea pilots noticed that the seals had been tampered with, and reported the matter to the authorities. The clandestine use of the transmitter was naturally suspected.

Rev. R. Perry, of the LMS, Papua, has been temporarily transferred from Uriki, in the Purari Delta, to Fife Bay. He will assist his colleague, Rev. M. Nixon, at the college there.

Rev. Alfred Sadd now is the only LMS Missionary remaining in the Gilbert Islands. He is assisted in his work at Beru by the Samoan pastor, Jupeli, and his wife, Sara.

After an absence of several months, M. Milliard, managing director of Etab lissements Ballande (the largest trading concern in New Caledonia and the largest French trading concern in the New Hebrides), has returned to Noumea. He is an ex-president of the General Council £he Colony, president of the Noumea Club, of the Race Committee, and of the Catholic Schools Board.

Rev. and Mrs. H. Taylor, of the LMS, Niue, and Rev. P. Knightly, of the LMS.

Tutuila, Samoa, have arrived in New Zea land on furlough.