Papeete Streets Renamed
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A NUMBER of the best known streets of Papeete, Tahiti, named in 1890, have been re named.
Part of Rue des Remparts now becomes Rue du Frere Alain; La Rue des Beaux-Arts becomes Rue Edouard Ahne; La Rue du Four be comes Rue du Chef Teriierooiterai; La Rue de la Petite Pologne be comes Rue Paul Gauguin; what was formerly the latter becoming now a part of I’Avenue du Chef Vaira atoa; Le Quai des Subsistences becomes part of Quai Bir Hackeim; La Rue Quai du Commerce be comes Rue du Commerce: and the Rue du Senateur Joseph Quesnot is extended.
Some of the new names com memorate local personalities. Frere Alain was Director of the Brothers School for many years, Edouard Ahane a lawer and late Deputy Teriierooiterai, famous chief of Papenoo District who died July 1952, and Joseph Quesnot another late Deputy of French Oceania.
Gauguin was, of course, the artist who lived qnd painted some of his more important works in Tahiti before dying in the Marquesas. ;p ev - Fr : A - Angsthelm, SM, of W. Samoa, is at present visiting Europe. He arrived in Samoa in
H Fiji’s representatives at the Coro nation were heading for home late in May. Mr. H. Maurice Scott and Ratu George Cakobau called at Malaya to visit the Infantry Battalion before returning to Fiji.
Major Oliver Edwards and the three servicemen under his command who went to London from Fiji are re
turning via Canada, the US Panama and Hawaii in HMAS Australia. First Battalion men from Malaya under Major J.
Takala, were returning there by troopship. Mr. Vishnu Deo, repre senting the Fiji Indian community, broke his air journey home by a three-week stay in India.