New Caledonia's Acting
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Governor
Noumea, July 9.
NEW Caledonia’s thin, clean-shaven, hard-working Secretary-General, Jan Bourgeau, who has stuck to his post amid all the stress and political turmoil of wartime Noumea, is Acting-Governor, pending the nomination of a successor to Henri Montchamp. He acted in the same capacity following the departure of Henri Sautot in May, 1942. M. Mont champ said, on his departure, that he expected his successor would be nomi nated “very soon.”
Miss June Ewen, formerly of Rabaul, New Guinea, and now of the WAAAF, is at present doing a special administrative course at Melbourne University. Before joining the WAAAF, at the end of 1942, she was the popular and energetic sec retary of the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney.
Official information has been received that Squadron Leader L. C. Shoppee, D.S.C., R.A.F., formerly a well-known New Guinea pilot, is a prisoner of war in Japanese hands in Java.
Lieutenant W. Macgregor (better known as “Bill” Macgregor, miner and recruiter of the Sepik District, New Guinea), who is attached to an Australian Intelligence unit, is at present on leave in Sydney.