Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1950Vol. XX, No. 8

To Refine Oil In Nc

p. 46 · Read in the full issue

Page 4646

Noumea, Jan. 20.

A COMPANY to refine oil in New Cale donia is in course of formation.

Moving spirit is M. Fombelle, who arrived in the Colony last July. It is hoped the project will have better sup port and success than other industries started here by Frenchmen since the war.

A company called the Societe Man ganese, with Messrs. Louis Montagnat and Joseph Debien as directors, has been formed to exploit deposits at Taom, in the Ouaco region of New Caledonia, es timated at 20,000 tons and discovered by M. Sylvestre Leconte.

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