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New Caledonia
THE most recent issue of the Journal of the Polynesian Society contains an interesting article by H. E. L. Friday wherein he tells of a Polynesian migration as late as 1765.
The migration took place from the island of Wallis, known to its Polynesian inhabitants as Uvea, and their quest for a new homeland ended at a small island off the coast of New Caledonia, 1,200 miles away. The newcomers, who were fleeing from the wrath of their king, called the island after their homeland and settled in among the original Melanesian inhabitants. The two communities did not merge, however, and even to-day it is pos sible to distinguish the Uvean, who derives from that 18th century migration, from his Melanesian neighbours. And. in the matter of language, the Polynesians im posed their language on the north and south but in the centre of the atoll the speech still remains Melanesian.
Mr. and Mrs. John Foster Burley, who were married on April 10, in the SDA church. East Prahran. Melbourne, by Pastor N. Perris, will live on Lilihina Is.,
Marovo Lagoon, BSI, where Mr. Burley is a plantation manager.