New Caledonian
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Natives
On Local Juries
From Our Own Correspondent EACH year in Noumea, New Caledonia, a commission sits to choose 30 people eligible to form juries for the Assize sessions.
This year, in keeping with the policy of giving more responsibility to the native people, eight natives have been chosen. They include four High Chiefs. Two European women are also on the panel.
A mixed bag of cases has been announced for the first Assizes—a
lot of It of the cherchez la femme type. There is a murder at Mare Island; a poisoning case from Northern NC in which a native woman, aided by her lover, poisoned her husband with weed killer; and an attempted murder of a young woman by her rejected lover.
II Posua Raitilava, of Bau, Fiji, celebrated his 70th birthday re cently. During the past ten years, Raitilava has been technical in structor of Occupational Therapy at Tamavua Hospital. It was he who made the handsome model of a Fijian canoe which was presented to the Queen for Prince Charles.