Cheese Factory
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No One Wants N. Caledonian Cheese Factory
THERE were no bidders when New Caledonia’s cheese factory at Bourail was put up for auction re cently. . , ..
At another advertised auction sale the former American ice factory, at the Mon tagne Coupee, near Noumea also went begging. The machinery will now be sold piecemeal, while the building will be handed over to the Public Works Depart ment.
Two former New Caledonian Governors have been promoted. One of them, M.
Rene Barthes, first class inspector of Colonies, has been made honorary Gover nor General. It was he who landed at Noumea on June 17, 1939, and left on August 6 of the same year—one of the shortest of terms in a Colony where Governors not infrequently put in less than a year’s service. The other pro motion is Monsieur Christian Laigret, who was Free French Governor from Sep tember, 1943 to February, 1944. A former Governor 3rd Class, he has been made “Gouverneur honoraire.” On leaving Noumea he obtained a governorship in North-west Africa.