Caledonia
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Patriot Makes Gift to New Caledonia
From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, Mar. 18.
A GIFT of 25,000 francs has been made to New Caledonia by Monsieur Idoux, an engineer of the Nickel Company. Of this sum, 11,600 francs will do towards the local budget, and the remainder will increase the fund of tne already existing Constant Bernheim Foundation, which runs the Noumea library and museum.
Bernheim was a miner who made a fortune in the Colony and to which he donated a large sum in memory or nis son, a Captain in the French Army, who was killed in World War I.
Tahiti budget estimates for 1944 are 44,854,000 francs, compared with 38,72i,0uu francs for 1943.