Tahiti Notes
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Ui’ANY civilians and officials gath- I* ered at Papeete on April 10 to 2e Governor Petibon inaugurate the ew 10-tons weighbridge, erected eside the Customs shed.
Next day, the Governor and Mdme.
'etibon formally opened the Chef de r airaatoa bridge. The large gathering icluded M. Poroi (Mayor), M. Las ere (Conseiller Technique) and M. .angomazino (Director of Municipal Vorks). The new bridge, which has width of 45 feet and can support weight of 50 tons, dost 326,919 rancs (£A2,335 approx.) In his ad ress at the ceremony, M. Poroi pro aised that yet another bridge, to be amed the Vaininiore, will be con ducted in the near future, % On April 28 the office of Maitre .ejeune, Public Notary, of Papeete, /as broken into and 40,000 francs tolen. Due to prompt Police action ae thief—Matariro, a fisherman — vas arrested—not, however, before ie had spent a large portion of the roceeds.
Yachts which visited Papeete in and May included Anna Eliza beth (Holland) the Belgian Omoo nd the Skirid and the Elsirat, both rom America.
FINDER the weight of an over- U loaded Public Works truck, the ridge over the Mateoro river, in 'apara, collapsed on May 21. A /oman, washing clothes beneath the ridge, had her leg injured. The river and his helpers jumped clear s the bridge slowly sagged.
M. Gilbert Ranson, Sub-Director f the Paris Museum, and an ex pert in the MOP shell field, has rrived here. He will endeavour to icrease MOP supplies which have een rapidly diminishing. There is onjecture as to whether M. Ranson /ill investigate the theory that the hell has been overcome by some isease, or will attempt to transplant hell from more favoured waters.
One of the most fashionable /eddings Papeete has ever witnessed nited two of Tahiti’s most promi ent and respected families at the ’atholic Cathedral, when Miss )emencia Grand, charming daughter f Mr. and Mrs. Rene Grand, was larried to Mr. Marcel Jurd, Jnr., on of Mr. and Mrs. Marcel Jurd. )ver 350 guests—who included, the Jovernor (M. Petitbon) and Mdme.
'etitbon, and M. Poroi (Mayor of 'apeete>—attended the reception at he bride’s home in Fautaua.
The engagement of Conrad Hall, on of the late James Norman Hall, o Miss Virginia Schwartz, was nnounced recently at the home of
the prospective bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Schwartz, of Stock ton, California.
Mr. Henry A. Kinney, well-known commentator on Far Eastern affairs, left Papeete on the Chungking on May 10, to visit his sons, Captain A.
Kinney (US Army) and Captain H.
Kinney (Delta Steamship Co.). Mr.
Kinney’s home in Mataiea is one of Tahiti’s show places. Mrs. Kinney is well known as an artist.
Capitaine Rabany arrived in Papeete recently to fill the post of Commandant de la Compagnie Autonome d’lnfainteree Colonial, vacated by Capitaine Carizey, who left for France on May 10.