Death Of Notable New

Caledonian

M. Gaston Jeanson

M. GASTON JEANSON, a distinguished New Caledonian, recently died in Noumea hospital, at the age of 75.

He went to Noumea originally as a lawyer, and was, for a long time, a mem ber of the Conseil General.

He left politics to enter the magistracy and was President of the Appeal Court, first at Noumea and then at Dakar ( Africa). Later he became a iudge in the Condominium Court in the New Hebrides (at Vila).

He had a reputation for scrupulous conscientiousness and great independence of character,