Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1950Vol. XX, No. 10

Suva Welcomes French

p. 8 · Read in the full issue

Page 88

Pacific Official

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva. May 1.

THE High Commissioner for French Pacific Territories (M. Cournarie) was welcomed by the Governor of Fiji (Sir Brian Freeston) when he landed at Suva this morning from the sloop Francois Gamier. After a three-day visit the High Commissioner will return in the sloop to Noumea, New Caledonia.

At the King’s Wharf a guard of honour was mounted by more than 100 Fijian members of the Fiji Police and the Band of the Fiji Military Forces played the “Marseillaise.” At Governmjent House, where M. Cournarie and Mme. Cournarie are guests, another guard of honour was mounted by Fijian soldiers of the FMF.

When the sloop arrived in port she fired a 21-gun salute which was returned gun for gun from shore.

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