RADIOTELEPHONIC communications
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Radiophone Between Noumea
And Vila
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Noumea. June 20.
RADIOTELEPHONIC communications
between Noumea and Port Vila will be on a public basis probably within a month, tests having already proved sat isfactory.
Charges are 12 gold francs for the first three minutes, with an additional four gold francs for each extra minute there after.
The remains of Captain Jean Gilbert, a French officer formerly well known and
much liked in Tahiti and in New Cale donia—where he was placed in command of the naval forces in June, 1942are to be taken by a French warship to Tahiti for re-burial. Catain Gilbert, who was a Navy air pilot, was killed in a bomber accident in New Zealand during the war.
Mr. Roy Dobbie departed from Rabaul, NG, m June. He has been in the Rabaul Hospital for some weeks, suffering from a skin disorder. His medical advisor has ordered him to spend at least 12 months in Australia. He first went to the Islands in 1933, spent some years in Bougainville
and then went to the Sepik District for the Public Works Department. He served in both world wars and since the restora tion of Civil Administration in Rabaul, has been in charge of the transport sec tion. He expects to return to the Territory as soon as his health permits.