Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1954Vol. XXV, No. 3

in Papeete

p. 21 · Read in the full issue

Page 2121

New Governor Arrives in Papeete

rENCH Oceania welcomed its new Governor on his arrival m Papeete, on Sept. 27 He is M Jean Francois Toby and he succeeds Governor Petitbon who has been transferred to Djibouti.

The new Governor was greeted with a salute of 15 guns as he came ashore from a TEAL air cr‘”k Representatives of the Army the Ma y° r and civil officials, were on hand, together with a very large gathering of the local populace.

With the new Governor was his secretary, M. Jean Paumelle.

Mr Harry Hodsdon, company secretary for Coconut Products, Ltd., Rabaul, during the last 3 h. years, expects to leave shortly for to take up a similar position with the W. R. Carpenter organisa tion there.

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