More Tonkinese Leaving
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New Caledonia
fIiHE Messageries Maritimes ship. Sontay, JL was due in Noumea early in October to repatriate 690 Tonkinese to Indo china. This number represents about 50 per cent, of the Tonkinese still awaiting repatriation from New Caledonia. It is estimated that for every two men to be repatriated there are, to-day, three child ren.
The last shipload of Tonkinese to be re patriated (in June, 1949, by the Yang Tse)
numbered 586, of whom 373 were adults.
Before the war there were about 3,500 Tonkinese workers in the Colony.
Mr. W. E. Monk has been appointed controller of Imports, Prices and Foreign Exchange in Fiji, on contract for three years. He was expected to arrive in Fiji in October. He recently retired from the service of the National Bank of New Zealand. At the time of his retirement he was Chief Accountant at the head office of the Bank in Wellington.