Lautoka Inquiry Into Sale of Ice Cream

Ice Cream

Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, March 28.

SINCE a fairly widespread outbreak of sickness at Lautoka, Fiji, was attri buted to locally-made ice cream, bacteriological examination of ice cream samples has been found to. be unsatie

factory, according to reports received by the Lautoka Town Board.

The Health Inspector said that if further samples were found to be unsatis factory he would recommend that legal proceedings be taken against the offen ders.

The Medical Officer of Health (Dr. R.

W. D. Maxwell) said that the consump tion of contaminated ice cream could be a contributing factor to an outbreak of typhoid of epidemic proportions.

To balance its 1949 budget, the town of Noumea is receiving a Government grant of three million francs.

During his visit to Prance, M. Bonneaud, President of the New Caledonian General Council, was granted an audience by the President of the Republic, M. Auriol. The latter questioned him closely on the prob lems facing the islanders to-day.

The French Government grant to the French administration in the New Heb rides for 1949, amounts to 6,500,500 Pacific francs. A similar grant for the Wallis- Futuna Group’s administration amounts to 1,152,600 Pacific francs.

New Caledonia has a new Inspector of Native Affairs. He is Gendarmerie adjudant Richard.