N. Caledonia's New
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Governor
Appointment of M. Georges Parisot,
Former Governor of Martinique
MONSIEUR Georges Parisot, newly appointed Governor of New Cale donia, is of higher status in the French Colonial Service than his pre decessor, M. Tallec.
French Colonial Governors are graded in a first, a second, and a third class, according to length of service etc.
M. Parisot comes out as an adminis trator of the first class, with a distin guished career behind him. indicating per haps that the French are now prepared to give a wider status than that formerly allowed their one-time rather neglected Pacific colony.
His ranking apparently entitles him to the title of Governor-General. He has a wife and three children.
Governor Parisot is aged 59 he was born in Algiers on October 9, 1887 he is a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur and graduated from the Ecole Coloniale, Paris, into the Colonial Service. Most of his life has been spent in Africa in Gabon, Sengal, Togoland, and other colonies of Equatorial and Occidental Africa. But after the Liberation of France, he was sent out to Martinique as Governor, a post he held for about two years. His New Caledonian appoint ment dates from December 10.—HELP.
Mr. R. E. Cartwright, a senior officer of the Repatriation Department, Bris bane, left by air on January 6, to investi gate problems of ex-Servicemen and women in Papua and New Guinea. It is believed that local repatriation commit tees are being formed in New Guinea, which has recently come under the jur isdiction of Queensland in repatriation matters.