Some New Caledonia
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History
T TNDER the direction of Father Patrick O’Reilly (now in Paris, and formerly a prominent member of the Roman Catholic Mission in New Calenodia) there has been published a Bibliography of the publications for which the New Caledonia Catholic Mission was re sponsible between 1885 and 1939. It is an impressive list; and as each work has been examined and annotated by Father O’Reilly the Bibliographic really is, apart from its religious significance, an im portant contribution to the history of New Caledonia and the island de pendencies thereof.
The Bibliography appears to have been a labour of love by Father O’Reilly, and his notes are very interesting and
valuable. There also is artistry and un usual interest in the hundred or more tiny sketches which illustrate the 50 pages of the compilation.
As illustrating the ferocity of Aus tralian taxation, it is noted that Guinea Airways, Ltd., made a profit of nearly £44,500 —but after the Taxation Commissioner had got his proportion (£24,197) there was only £20,319 left for the shareholders.
Guinea Airways, a moneyspinner in New Guinea in the halcyon gold fields days, is now partly operational and partly an investment concern; and all its interests have been in Australia since World War II wiped it out of the Islands.