Pacific Islands Monthly
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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 June 1943Vol. XIII, No. 11

Nc Election Is Called

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Noumea, June 1.

GENERAL de Gaulle called off the elections for the Administrative Council, fixed for Sunday, May 30, on the ground that wartime elections are inadmissible. Governor Montchamp has sent to London a proposal to retain the former Council of 12, with the addition of 10 other members “chosen from the most representative elements in the population.”

The Vicar of Thursday Island, Rev.

Walter Daniells, has been able to return to the Torres Strait district.

Mr. lan Rossel Innes, son of Mrs. Allen Innes, late of Misima, Papua, celebrated his 21st birthday recently whilst training in Canada as a member of the RAAF.

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