Service For Wallis Group
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From Our Own Correspondent
Noumea, June 1.
THE Neo Hebridais broke her regular schedule of sailing between Sydney, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides recently to take 44 passengers and stores to the Wallis Islands, the isolated French archipelago between Fiji and Samoa. The passengers included a military doctor, Lieut. Touze, and his wife and a number
of priests, as well as 15 Wallis Island soldiers who have been serving in New Caledonia, and 20 other Wallis natives.
There are about 5,000 Polynesians in the Wallis-Uvea Group.
Mr. A. F, Ward, of Suva, Fiji, arrived in Mauritius in June to become Deputy Comptroller of Customs. Before he went on leave to England earlier this year he was in the Fiji Service as Collector of Customs.