Death Of M. Ratard, Of
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New Hebrides
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea. Feb. 15.
rE death is announced of M. Ratard, one of the most successful Preneh planters in the New Hebrides. He arrived there in 1901. with no fortune other than the will to work, and built up a large property at Santo, which he had never left, and which is run on up-to date lines.
He is reported to have amassed a for tune of many millions of francs. His son has been working in recent years for the Nickel Company in Noumea, and his daughter-in-law is ehemistry professor at the College de la Perouse.
When he announced M. Retard’s death, Governor Laigret described him as one of that sroun of valiant French pioneers who created the important centre of French colonisation, the Segond Channel.