Workers From Wallis

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Noumea, July 6.

rO hundred Polynesian natives from Wallis Island, situated north-east of Fiji and west of Samoa, have arrived in New Caledonia to help relieve the labor shortage caused by the war.

Wallis Island (a very close group of nine islands) is a French protectorate whose king signed a treaty of friendship with France exactly one hundred years ago, although Catholic priests have been there since 1837. It is a dependency of New Caledonia, but although there is radio communication, the group is sel dom visited by French ships, most of the limited trade being with Fiji and West ern Samoa. The group is sometimes flown over to-day by planes on the war time Pacific ferry service.