Appreciation
p. 81 · Read in the full issue
Suva, Oct. 7.
WfIEN speaking at the winding-up of the Suva Table Tennis Association’s first season, the President (popu lar Mr. C. S. Reay) politely thanked the Commissioner of Labour for the loan of his office and some chairs, for committee meetings. Mr. Reay fills both positions.
The French Resistance Medal has been posthumously awarded to a New Cale donian volunteer. Marcel Exbroyat. He was killed on May 12, 1944, in the Italian campaign.
The growth of air traffic to and from New Caledonia is revealed by the latest figures released in Noumea covering the fiist six months of this year. These show that 505 of the 1,232 passengers who landed, came by air. Of the total new arrivals, 246 were foreigners. The Colony lost 320 people who returned to France, and gained 406 from that country, most of whom travelled by ship. But most of the passengers to and from Australia and New Zealand moved by air, these being in the majority of cases, Caledonians who had been permitted to travel for health reasons.